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Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Specification (Second Edition)

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W3C Working Draft 29 September, 2000

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http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-DOM-Level-1-20000929
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Latest version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1
Previous version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-DOM-Level-1-19981001
Editors:
Lauren Wood, SoftQuad, Inc., chair
Arnaud Le Hors, W3C, staff contact
Vidur Apparao, Netscape
Steve Byrne, Sun
Mike Champion, ArborText
Scott Isaacs, Microsoft
Ian Jacobs, W3C
Gavin Nicol, Inso EPS
Jonathan Robie, Texcel Research
Robert Sutor, IBM
Chris Wilson, Microsoft

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Abstract

This specification defines the Document Object Model Level 1, a platform- and language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure and style of documents. The Document Object Model provides a standard set of objects for representing HTML and XML documents, a standard model of how these objects can be combined, and a standard interface for accessing and manipulating them. Vendors can support the DOM as an interface to their proprietary data structures and APIs, and content authors can write to the standard DOM interfaces rather than product-specific APIs, thus increasing interoperability on the Web.

The goal of the DOM specification is to define a programmatic interface for XML and HTML. The DOM Level 1 specification is separated into two parts: Core and HTML. The Core DOM Level 1 section provides a low-level set of fundamental interfaces that can represent any structured document, as well as defining extended interfaces for representing an XML document. These extended XML interfaces need not be implemented by a DOM implementation that only provides access to HTML documents; all of the fundamental interfaces in the Core section must be implemented. A compliant DOM implementation that implements the extended XML interfaces is required to also implement the fundamental Core interfaces, but not the HTML interfaces. The HTML Level 1 section provides additional, higher-level interfaces that are used with the fundamental interfaces defined in the Core Level 1 section to provide a more convenient view of an HTML document. A compliant implementation of the HTML DOM implements all of the fundamental Core interfaces as well as the HTML interfaces.

Status of this document

This document is a version of the DOM Level 1 Recommendation incorporating the errata changes as of September 29, 2000. It is released by the DOM Working Group as a W3C Working Draft to gather public feedback before its final release as the DOM Level 1 second edition W3C Recommendation (as these changes are editorials, there will be no Candidate Recommendation or Proposed Recommendation stages). The review period for this Working Draft is 4 weeks ending October 27 2000.

This second edition is not a new version of the DOM Level 1; it merely incorporates the changes dictated by the first-edition errata list. This document should not be used as reference material or cited as a normative reference from another document.

This document has been produced as part of the W3C DOM Activity. The authors of this document are the DOM WG members. Different modules of the Document Object Model have different editors.

Please report errors in this document to the public mailing list www-dom@w3.org. An archive is available at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/.

A list of current W3C Recommendations and other technical documents can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR.

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What is the Document Object Model?

Editors
Jonathan Robie, Texcel Research

Introduction

The Document Object Model (DOM) is an application programming interface (API) for valid HTML and well-formed XML documents. It defines the logical structure of documents and the way a document is accessed and manipulated. In the DOM specification, the term "document" is used in the broad sense - increasingly, XML is being used as a way of representing many different kinds of information that may be stored in diverse systems, and much of this would traditionally be seen as data rather than as documents. Nevertheless, XML presents this data as documents, and the DOM may be used to manage this data.

With the Document Object Model, programmers can build documents, navigate their structure, and add, modify, or delete elements and content. Anything found in an HTML or XML document can be accessed, changed, deleted, or added using the Document Object Model, with a few exceptions - in particular, the DOM interfaces for the XML internal and external subsets have not yet been specified.

As a W3C specification, one important objective for the Document Object Model is to provide a standard programming interface that can be used in a wide variety of environments and applications. The DOM is designed to be used with any programming language. In order to provide a precise, language-independent specification of the DOM interfaces, we have chosen to define the specifications in Object Management Group (OMG) IDL [OMGIDL], as defined in the CORBA 2.2 specification [CORBA]. In addition to the OMG IDL specification, we provide language bindings for Java [Java] and ECMAScript [ECMAScript] (an industry-standard scripting language based on JavaScript and JScript).

Note: OMG IDL is used only as a language-independent and implementation-neutral way to specify interfaces. Various other IDLs could have been used. In general, IDLs are designed for specific computing environments. The Document Object Model can be implemented in any computing environment, and does not require the object binding runtimes generally associated with such IDLs.

What the Document Object Model is

The DOM is a programming API for documents. It is based on an object structure that closely resembles the structure of the documents it models. For instance, consider this table, taken from an HTML document: 


      <TABLE>
      <TBODY> 
      <TR> 
      <TD>Shady Grove</TD>
      <TD>Aeolian</TD> 
      </TR> 
      <TR>
      <TD>Over the River, Charlie</TD>        
      <TD>Dorian</TD> 
      </TR> 
      </TBODY>
      </TABLE>

The DOM represents this table like this:

DOM representation of the example table
DOM representation of the example table

In the DOM, documents have a logical structure which is very much like a tree; to be more precise, which is like a "forest" or "grove", which can contain more than one tree. Each document contains zero or one doctype nodes, one root element node, and zero or more comments or processing instructions; the root element serves as the root of the element tree for the document. However, the DOM does not specify that documents must be implemented as a tree or a grove, nor does it specify how the relationships among objects be implemented. The DOM is a logical model that may be implemented in any convenient manner. In this specification, we use the term structure model to describe the tree-like representation of a document. We also use the term "tree" when referring to the arrangement of those information items which can be reached by using "tree-walking" methods; (this does not include attributes). One important property of DOM structure models is structural isomorphism: if any two Document Object Model implementations are used to create a representation of the same document, they will create the same structure model, in accordance with the XML Information Set [Infoset].

Note: There may be some variations depending on the parser being used to build the DOM. For instance, the DOM may not contain whitespaces in element content if the parser discards them.

The name "Document Object Model" was chosen because it is an "object model" in the traditional object oriented design sense: documents are modeled using objects, and the model encompasses not only the structure of a document, but also the behavior of a document and the objects of which it is composed. In other words, the nodes in the above diagram do not represent a data structure, they represent objects, which have functions and identity. As an object model, the DOM identifies:

The structure of SGML documents has traditionally been represented by an abstract data model, not by an object model. In an abstract data model, the model is centered around the data. In object oriented programming languages, the data itself is encapsulated in objects that hide the data, protecting it from direct external manipulation. The functions associated with these objects determine how the objects may be manipulated, and they are part of the object model.

What the Document Object Model is not

This section is designed to give a more precise understanding of the DOM by distinguishing it from other systems that may seem to be like it.

Where the Document Object Model came from

The DOM originated as a specification to allow JavaScript scripts and Java programs to be portable among Web browsers. "Dynamic HTML" was the immediate ancestor of the Document Object Model, and it was originally thought of largely in terms of browsers. However, when the DOM Working Group was formed at W3C, it was also joined by vendors in other domains, including HTML or XML editors and document repositories. Several of these vendors had worked with SGML before XML was developed; as a result, the DOM has been influenced by SGML Groves and the HyTime standard. Some of these vendors had also developed their own object models for documents in order to provide an API for SGML/XML editors or document repositories, and these object models have also influenced the DOM.

Entities and the DOM Core

In the fundamental DOM interfaces, there are no objects representing entities. Numeric character references, and references to the pre-defined entities in HTML and XML, are replaced by the single character that makes up the entity's replacement. For example, in: 


        <p>This is a dog &amp; a cat</p>

the "&amp;" will be replaced by the character "&", and the text in the P element will form a single continuous sequence of characters. Since numeric character references and pre-defined entities are not recognized as such in CDATA sections, or in the SCRIPT and STYLE elements in HTML, they are not replaced by the single character they appear to refer to. If the example above were enclosed in a CDATA section, the "&amp;" would not be replaced by "&"; neither would the <p> be recognized as a start tag. The representation of general entities, both internal and external, are defined within the extended (XML) interfaces of the Level 1 specification.

Note: When a DOM representation of a document is serialized as XML or HTML text, applications will need to check each character in text data to see if it needs to be escaped using a numeric or pre-defined entity. Failing to do so could result in invalid HTML or XML. Also, implementations should be aware of the fact that serialization into a character encoding ("charset") that does not fully cover ISO 10646 may fail if there are characters in markup or CDATA sections that are not present in the encoding.

Compliance

The Document Object Model Level 1 currently consists of two parts, DOM Core and DOM HTML. The DOM Core represents the functionality used for XML documents, and also serves as the basis for DOM HTML.

A compliant implementation of the DOM must implement all of the fundamental interfaces in the Core chapter with the semantics as defined. Further, it must implement at least one of the HTML DOM and the extended (XML) interfaces with the semantics as defined.

A DOM application can use the hasFeature method of the DOMImplementation interface to determine whether the module is supported or not. The feature strings for all modules in DOM Level 1 are listed in the following table; (strings are case-insensitive):
ModuleFeature String
XML XML
HTML HTML

DOM Interfaces and DOM Implementations

The DOM specifies interfaces which may be used to manage XML or HTML documents. It is important to realize that these interfaces are an abstraction - much like "abstract base classes" in C++, they are a means of specifying a way to access and manipulate an application's internal representation of a document. Interfaces do not imply a particular concrete implementation. Each DOM application is free to maintain documents in any convenient representation, as long as the interfaces shown in this specification are supported. Some DOM implementations will be existing programs that use the DOM interfaces to access software written long before the DOM specification existed. Therefore, the DOM is designed to avoid implementation dependencies; in particular,

  1. Attributes defined in the IDL do not imply concrete objects which must have specific data members - in the language bindings, they are translated to a pair of get()/set() functions, not to a data member. Read-only attributes have only a get() function in the language bindings.
  2. DOM applications may provide additional interfaces and objects not found in this specification and still be considered DOM compliant.
  3. Because we specify interfaces and not the actual objects that are to be created, the DOM cannot know what constructors to call for an implementation. In general, DOM users call the createX() methods on the Document class to create document structures, and DOM implementations create their own internal representations of these structures in their implementations of the createX() functions.

Limitations of Level 1

The DOM Level 1 specification is intentionally limited to those methods needed to represent and manipulate document structure and content. The plan is for future Levels of the DOM specification to provide:

  1. A structure model for the internal subset and the external subset.
  2. Validation against a schema.
  3. Control for rendering documents via style sheets.
  4. Access control.
  5. Thread-safety.
  6. Events.

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1. Document Object Model Core

Editors
Mike Champion, ArborText (from November 20, 1997)
Steve Byrne, JavaSoft (until November 19, 1997)
Gavin Nicol, Inso EPS
Lauren Wood, SoftQuad, Inc.

Table of contents

1.1. Overview of the DOM Core Interfaces

This section defines a set of objects and interfaces for accessing and manipulating document objects. The functionality specified in this section (the Core functionality) is sufficient to allow software developers and web script authors to access and manipulate parsed HTML and XML content inside conforming products. The DOM Core API also allows creation and population of a Document object using only DOM API calls; loading a Document and saving it persistently is left to the product that implements the DOM API.

1.1.1. The DOM Structure Model

The DOM presents documents as a hierarchy of Node objects that also implement other, more specialized interfaces. Some types of nodes may have child nodes of various types, and others are leaf nodes that cannot have anything below them in the document structure. For XML and HTML, the node types, and which node types they may have as children, are as follows:

The DOM also specifies a NodeList interface to handle ordered lists of Nodes, such as the children of a Node, or the elements returned by the getElementsByTagName method of the Element interface, and also a NamedNodeMap interface to handle unordered sets of nodes referenced by their name attribute, such as the attributes of an Element. NodeList and NamedNodeMap objects in the DOM are live; that is, changes to the underlying document structure are reflected in all relevant NodeList and NamedNodeMap objects. For example, if a DOM user gets a NodeList object containing the children of an Element, then subsequently adds more children to that element (or removes children, or modifies them), those changes are automatically reflected in the NodeList, without further action on the user's part. Likewise, changes to a Node in the tree are reflected in all references to that Node in NodeList and NamedNodeMap objects.

Finally, the interfaces Text, Comment, and CDATASection all inherit from the CharacterData interface.

1.1.2. Memory Management

Most of the APIs defined by this specification are interfaces rather than classes. That means that an implementation need only expose methods with the defined names and specified operation, not implement classes that correspond directly to the interfaces. This allows the DOM APIs to be implemented as a thin veneer on top of legacy applications with their own data structures, or on top of newer applications with different class hierarchies. This also means that ordinary constructors (in the Java or C++ sense) cannot be used to create DOM objects, since the underlying objects to be constructed may have little relationship to the DOM interfaces. The conventional solution to this in object-oriented design is to define factory methods that create instances of objects that implement the various interfaces. In the DOM Level 1, objects implementing some interface "X" are created by a "createX()" method on the Document interface; this is because all DOM objects live in the context of a specific Document.

The DOM Level 1 API does not define a standard way to create DOMImplementation or Document objects; DOM implementations must provide some proprietary way of bootstrapping these DOM interfaces, and then all other objects can be built from there.

The Core DOM APIs are designed to be compatible with a wide range of languages, including both general-user scripting languages and the more challenging languages used mostly by professional programmers. Thus, the DOM APIs need to operate across a variety of memory management philosophies, from language bindings that do not expose memory management to the user at all, through those (notably Java) that provide explicit constructors but provide an automatic garbage collection mechanism to automatically reclaim unused memory, to those (especially C/C++) that generally require the programmer to explicitly allocate object memory, track where it is used, and explicitly free it for re-use. To ensure a consistent API across these platforms, the DOM does not address memory management issues at all, but instead leaves these for the implementation. Neither of the explicit language bindings devised by the DOM Working Group (for ECMAScript and Java) require any memory management methods, but DOM bindings for other languages (especially C or C++) may require such support. These extensions will be the responsibility of those adapting the DOM API to a specific language, not the DOM Working Group.

1.1.3. Naming Conventions

While it would be nice to have attribute and method names that are short, informative, internally consistent, and familiar to users of similar APIs, the names also should not clash with the names in legacy APIs supported by DOM implementations. Furthermore, both OMG IDL and ECMAScript have significant limitations in their ability to disambiguate names from different namespaces that make it difficult to avoid naming conflicts with short, familiar names. So, some DOM names tend to be long and quite descriptive in order to be unique across all environments.

The Working Group has also attempted to be internally consistent in its use of various terms, even though these may not be common distinctions in other APIs. For example, we use the method name "remove" when the method changes the structural model, and the method name "delete" when the method gets rid of something inside the structure model. The thing that is deleted is not returned. The thing that is removed may be returned, when it makes sense to return it.

1.1.4. Inheritance vs. Flattened Views of the API

The DOM Core APIs present two somewhat different sets of interfaces to an XML/HTML document; one presenting an "object oriented" approach with a hierarchy of inheritance, and a "simplified" view that allows all manipulation to be done via the Node interface without requiring casts (in Java and other C-like languages) or query interface calls in COM environments. These operations are fairly expensive in Java and COM, and the DOM may be used in performance-critical environments, so we allow significant functionality using just the Node interface. Because many other users will find the inheritance hierarchy easier to understand than the "everything is a Node" approach to the DOM, we also support the full higher-level interfaces for those who prefer a more object-oriented API.

In practice, this means that there is a certain amount of redundancy in the API. The Working Group considers the "inheritance" approach the primary view of the API, and the full set of functionality on Node to be "extra" functionality that users may employ, but that does not eliminate the need for methods on other interfaces that an object-oriented analysis would dictate. (Of course, when the O-O analysis yields an attribute or method that is identical to one on the Node interface, we don't specify a completely redundant one.) Thus, even though there is a generic nodeName attribute on the Node interface, there is still a tagName attribute on the Element interface; these two attributes must contain the same value, but the Working Group considers it worthwhile to support both, given the different constituencies the DOM API must satisfy.

1.1.5. The DOMString type

To ensure interoperability, the DOM specifies the following:

  • Type Definition DOMString

    A DOMString is a sequence of 16-bit units.


    IDL Definition
    
typedef sequence<unsigned short> DOMString;

  • Applications must encode DOMString using UTF-16 (defined in [Unicode] and Amendment 1 of [ISO/IEC 10646]).
    The UTF-16 encoding was chosen because of its widespread industry practice. Note that for both HTML and XML, the document character set (and therefore the notation of numeric character references) is based on UCS [ISO-10646]. A single numeric character reference in a source document may therefore in some cases correspond to two 16-bit units in a DOMString (a high surrogate and a low surrogate).

    Note: Even though the DOM defines the name of the string type to be DOMString, bindings may use different names. For example for Java, DOMString is bound to the String type because it also uses UTF-16 as its encoding.

Note: As of August 1998, the OMG IDL specification included a wstring type. However, that definition did not meet the interoperability criteria of the DOM API since it relied on negotiation to decide the width and encoding of a character.

1.1.6. String comparisons in the DOM

The DOM has many interfaces that imply string matching. HTML processors generally assume an uppercase (less often, lowercase) normalization of names for such things as elements, while XML is explicitly case sensitive. For the purposes of the DOM, string matching is performed purely by binary comparison of the 16-bit units of the DOMString. In addition, the DOM assumes that any case normalizations take place in the processor, before the DOM structures are built.

Note: Besides case folding, there are additional normalizations that can be applied to text. The W3C I18N Working Group is in the process of defining exactly which normalizations are necessary, and where they should be applied. The W3C I18N Working Group expects to require early normalization, which means that data read into the DOM is assumed to already be normalized. The DOM and applications built on top of it in this case only have to assure that text remains normalized when being changed. For further details, please see [Charmod].

1.2. Fundamental Interfaces

The interfaces within this section are considered fundamental, and must be fully implemented by all conforming implementations of the DOM, including all HTML DOM implementations, unless otherwise specified.

Exception DOMException

DOM operations only raise exceptions in "exceptional" circumstances, i.e., when an operation is impossible to perform (either for logical reasons, because data is lost, or because the implementation has become unstable). In general, DOM methods return specific error values in ordinary processing situations, such as out-of-bound errors when using NodeList.

Implementations may raise other exceptions under other circumstances. For example, implementations may raise an implementation-dependent exception if a null argument is passed.

Some languages and object systems do not support the concept of exceptions. For such systems, error conditions may be indicated using native error reporting mechanisms. For some bindings, for example, methods may return error codes similar to those listed in the corresponding method descriptions.


IDL Definition
exception DOMException {
  unsigned short   code;
};
// ExceptionCode
const unsigned short      INDEX_SIZE_ERR                 = 1;
const unsigned short      DOMSTRING_SIZE_ERR             = 2;
const unsigned short      HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR          = 3;
const unsigned short      WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR             = 4;
const unsigned short      INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR          = 5;
const unsigned short      NO_DATA_ALLOWED_ERR            = 6;
const unsigned short      NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR    = 7;
const unsigned short      NOT_FOUND_ERR                  = 8;
const unsigned short      NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR              = 9;
const unsigned short      INUSE_ATTRIBUTE_ERR            = 10;

Definition group ExceptionCode

An integer indicating the type of error generated.

Note: Other numeric codes are reserved for W3C for possible future use.

Defined Constants
DOMSTRING_SIZE_ERR
If the specified range of text does not fit into a DOMString

HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR
If any node is inserted somewhere it doesn't belong

INDEX_SIZE_ERR
If index or size is negative, or greater than the allowed value

INUSE_ATTRIBUTE_ERR
If an attempt is made to add an attribute that is already in use elsewhere

INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR
If an invalid or illegal character is specified, such as in a name. See production 2 in the XML specification for the definition of a legal character, and production 5 for the definition of a legal name character.

NOT_FOUND_ERR
If an attempt is made to reference a node in a context where it does not exist

NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR
If the implementation does not support the type of object requested

NO_DATA_ALLOWED_ERR
If data is specified for a node which does not support data

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR
If an attempt is made to modify an object where modifications are not allowed

WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR
If a node is used in a different document than the one that created it (that doesn't support it)

Interface DOMImplementation

The DOMImplementation interface provides a number of methods for performing operations that are independent of any particular instance of the document object model.

The DOM Level 1 does not specify a way of creating a document instance, and hence document creation is an operation specific to an implementation. Future Levels of the DOM specification are expected to provide methods for creating documents directly.


IDL Definition
interface DOMImplementation {
  boolean            hasFeature(in DOMString feature, 
                                in DOMString version);
};

Methods
hasFeature
Test if the DOM implementation implements a specific feature.
Parameters
feature of type DOMString
The name of the feature to test (case-insensitive). The values used by DOM features are defined throughout this specification and listed in the Compliance section. The name must be an XML name. To avoid possible conflicts, as a convention, names referring to features defined outside the DOM specification should be made unique by reversing the name of the Internet domain name of the person (or the organization that the person belongs to) who defines the feature, component by component, and using this as a prefix. For instance, the W3C SYMM Working Group defines the feature "org.w3c.dom.smil".

version of type DOMString
This is the version number of the feature to test. In Level 1, this is the string "1.0". If the version is not specified, supporting any version of the feature causes the method to return true.

Return Value

boolean

true if the feature is implemented in the specified version, false otherwise.

No Exceptions

Interface DocumentFragment

DocumentFragment is a "lightweight" or "minimal" Document object. It is very common to want to be able to extract a portion of a document's tree or to create a new fragment of a document. Imagine implementing a user command like cut or rearranging a document by moving fragments around. It is desirable to have an object which can hold such fragments and it is quite natural to use a Node for this purpose. While it is true that a Document object could fulfill this role, a Document object can potentially be a heavyweight object, depending on the underlying implementation. What is really needed for this is a very lightweight object. DocumentFragment is such an object.

Furthermore, various operations -- such as inserting nodes as children of another Node -- may take DocumentFragment objects as arguments; this results in all the child nodes of the DocumentFragment being moved to the child list of this node.

The children of a DocumentFragment node are zero or more nodes representing the tops of any sub-trees defining the structure of the document. DocumentFragment nodes do not need to be well-formed XML documents (although they do need to follow the rules imposed upon well-formed XML parsed entities, which can have multiple top nodes). For example, a DocumentFragment might have only one child and that child node could be a Text node. Such a structure model represents neither an HTML document nor a well-formed XML document.

When a DocumentFragment is inserted into a Document (or indeed any other Node that may take children) the children of the DocumentFragment and not the DocumentFragment itself are inserted into the Node. This makes the DocumentFragment very useful when the user wishes to create nodes that are siblings; the DocumentFragment acts as the parent of these nodes so that the user can use the standard methods from the Node interface, such as insertBefore and appendChild.


IDL Definition
interface DocumentFragment : Node {
};

Interface Document

The Document interface represents the entire HTML or XML document. Conceptually, it is the root of the document tree, and provides the primary access to the document's data.

Since elements, text nodes, comments, processing instructions, etc. cannot exist outside the context of a Document, the Document interface also contains the factory methods needed to create these objects. The Node objects created have a ownerDocument attribute which associates them with the Document within whose context they were created.


IDL Definition
interface Document : Node {
  readonly attribute DocumentType     doctype;
  readonly attribute DOMImplementation  implementation;
  readonly attribute Element          documentElement;
  Element            createElement(in DOMString tagName)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  DocumentFragment   createDocumentFragment();
  Text               createTextNode(in DOMString data);
  Comment            createComment(in DOMString data);
  CDATASection       createCDATASection(in DOMString data)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  ProcessingInstruction createProcessingInstruction(in DOMString target, 
                                                    in DOMString data)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  Attr               createAttribute(in DOMString name)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  EntityReference    createEntityReference(in DOMString name)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  NodeList           getElementsByTagName(in DOMString tagname);
};

Attributes
doctype of type DocumentType, readonly
The Document Type Declaration (see DocumentType) associated with this document. For HTML documents as well as XML documents without a document type declaration this returns null. The DOM Level 1 does not support editing the Document Type Declaration. docType cannot be altered in any way, including through the use of methods inherited from the Node interface, such as insertNode or removeNode.

documentElement of type Element, readonly
This is a convenience attribute that allows direct access to the child node that is the root element of the document. For HTML documents, this is the element with the tagName "HTML".

implementation of type DOMImplementation, readonly
The DOMImplementation object that handles this document. A DOM application may use objects from multiple implementations.

Methods
createAttribute
Creates an Attr of the given name. Note that the Attr instance can then be set on an Element using the setAttributeNode method.
Parameters
name of type DOMString
The name of the attribute.

Return Value

Attr

A new Attr object with the NodeName attribute set to name. The value of the attribute is the empty string.

Exceptions

DOMException

INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified name contains an illegal character.

createCDATASection
Creates a CDATASection node whose value is the specified string.
Parameters
data of type DOMString
The data for the CDATASection contents.

Return Value

CDATASection

The new CDATASection object.

Exceptions

DOMException

NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if this document is an HTML document.

createComment
Creates a Comment node given the specified string.
Parameters
data of type DOMString
The data for the node.

Return Value

Comment

The new Comment object.

No Exceptions

createDocumentFragment
Creates an empty DocumentFragment object.
Return Value

DocumentFragment

A new DocumentFragment.

No Parameters
No Exceptions

createElement
Creates an element of the type specified. Note that the instance returned implements the Element interface, so attributes can be specified directly on the returned object.
In addition, if there are known attributes with default values, Attr nodes representing them are automatically created and attached to the element.
Parameters
tagName of type DOMString
The name of the element type to instantiate. For XML, this is case-sensitive. For HTML, the tagName parameter may be provided in any case, but it must be mapped to the canonical uppercase form by the DOM implementation.

Return Value

Element

A new Element object with the nodeName attribute set to tagName.

Exceptions

DOMException

INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified name contains an illegal character.

createEntityReference
Creates an EntityReference object. In addition, if the referenced entity is known, the child list of the EntityReference node is made the same as that of the corresponding Entity node.
Parameters
name of type DOMString
The name of the entity to reference.

Return Value

EntityReference

The new EntityReference object.

Exceptions

DOMException

INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified name contains an illegal character.

NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if this document is an HTML document.

createProcessingInstruction
Creates a ProcessingInstruction node given the specified name and data strings.
Parameters
target of type DOMString
The target part of the processing instruction.

data of type DOMString
The data for the node.

Return Value

ProcessingInstruction

The new ProcessingInstruction object.

Exceptions

DOMException

INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified target contains an illegal character.

NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if this document is an HTML document.

createTextNode
Creates a Text node given the specified string.
Parameters
data of type DOMString
The data for the node.

Return Value

Text

The new Text object.

No Exceptions

getElementsByTagName
Returns a NodeList of all the Elements with a given tag name in the order in which they are encountered in a preorder traversal of the Document tree.
Parameters
tagname of type DOMString
The name of the tag to match on. The special value "*" matches all tags.

Return Value

NodeList

A new NodeList object containing all the matched Elements.

No Exceptions

Interface Node

The Node interface is the primary datatype for the entire Document Object Model. It represents a single node in the document tree. While all objects implementing the Node interface expose methods for dealing with children, not all objects implementing the Node interface may have children. For example, Text nodes may not have children, and adding children to such nodes results in a DOMException being raised.

The attributes nodeName, nodeValue and attributes are included as a mechanism to get at node information without casting down to the specific derived interface. In cases where there is no obvious mapping of these attributes for a specific nodeType (e.g., nodeValue for an Element or attributes for a Comment), this returns null. Note that the specialized interfaces may contain additional and more convenient mechanisms to get and set the relevant information.


IDL Definition
interface Node {

  // NodeType
  const unsigned short      ELEMENT_NODE                   = 1;
  const unsigned short      ATTRIBUTE_NODE                 = 2;
  const unsigned short      TEXT_NODE                      = 3;
  const unsigned short      CDATA_SECTION_NODE             = 4;
  const unsigned short      ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE          = 5;
  const unsigned short      ENTITY_NODE                    = 6;
  const unsigned short      PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE    = 7;
  const unsigned short      COMMENT_NODE                   = 8;
  const unsigned short      DOCUMENT_NODE                  = 9;
  const unsigned short      DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE             = 10;
  const unsigned short      DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE         = 11;
  const unsigned short      NOTATION_NODE                  = 12;

  readonly attribute DOMString        nodeName;
           attribute DOMString        nodeValue;
                                        // raises(DOMException) on setting
                                        // raises(DOMException) on retrieval

  readonly attribute unsigned short   nodeType;
  readonly attribute Node             parentNode;
  readonly attribute NodeList         childNodes;
  readonly attribute Node             firstChild;
  readonly attribute Node             lastChild;
  readonly attribute Node             previousSibling;
  readonly attribute Node             nextSibling;
  readonly attribute NamedNodeMap     attributes;
  readonly attribute Document         ownerDocument;
  Node               insertBefore(in Node newChild, 
                                  in Node refChild)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  Node               replaceChild(in Node newChild, 
                                  in Node oldChild)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  Node               removeChild(in Node oldChild)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  Node               appendChild(in Node newChild)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  boolean            hasChildNodes();
  Node               cloneNode(in boolean deep)
                                        raises(DOMException);
};

Definition group NodeType

An integer indicating which type of node this is.

Note: Numeric codes up to 200 are reserved to W3C for possible future use.

Defined Constants
ATTRIBUTE_NODE
The node is an Attr.

CDATA_SECTION_NODE
The node is a CDATASection.

COMMENT_NODE
The node is a Comment.

DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE
The node is a DocumentFragment.

DOCUMENT_NODE
The node is a Document.

DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE
The node is a DocumentType.

ELEMENT_NODE
The node is an Element.

ENTITY_NODE
The node is an Entity.

ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE
The node is an EntityReference.

NOTATION_NODE
The node is a Notation.

PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE
The node is a ProcessingInstruction.

TEXT_NODE
The node is a Text node.

The values of nodeName, nodeValue, and attributes vary according to the node type as follows:
nodeNamenodeValueattributes
Attr name of attribute value of attribute null
CDATASection #cdata-section content of the CDATA Section null
Comment #comment content of the comment null
Document #document null null
DocumentFragment #document-fragment null null
DocumentType document type name null null
Element tag name null NamedNodeMap
Entity entity name null null
EntityReference name of entity referenced null null
Notation notation name null null
ProcessingInstruction target entire content excluding the target null
Text #text content of the text node null

Attributes
attributes of type NamedNodeMap, readonly
A NamedNodeMap containing the attributes of this node (if it is an Element) or null otherwise.

childNodes of type NodeList, readonly
A NodeList that contains all children of this node. If there are no children, this is a NodeList containing no nodes.

firstChild of type Node, readonly
The first child of this node. If there is no such node, this returns null.

lastChild of type Node, readonly
The last child of this node. If there is no such node, this returns null.

nextSibling of type Node, readonly
The node immediately following this node. If there is no such node, this returns null.

nodeName of type DOMString, readonly
The name of this node, depending on its type; see the table above.

nodeType of type unsigned short, readonly
A code representing the type of the underlying object, as defined above.

nodeValue of type DOMString
The value of this node, depending on its type; see the table above. When it is defined to be null, setting it has no effect.
Exceptions on setting

DOMException

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is readonly.

Exceptions on retrieval

DOMException

DOMSTRING_SIZE_ERR: Raised when it would return more characters than fit in a DOMString variable on the implementation platform.

ownerDocument of type Document, readonly
The Document object associated with this node. This is also the Document object used to create new nodes. When this node is a Document, this is null.

parentNode of type Node, readonly
The parent of this node. All nodes, except Attr, Document, DocumentFragment, Entity, and Notation may have a parent. However, if a node has just been created and not yet added to the tree, or if it has been removed from the tree, this is null.

previousSibling of type Node, readonly
The node immediately preceding this node. If there is no such node, this returns null.

Methods
appendChild
Adds the node newChild to the end of the list of children of this node. If the newChild is already in the tree, it is first removed.
Parameters
newChild of type Node
The node to add.
If it is a DocumentFragment object, the entire contents of the document fragment are moved into the child list of this node

Return Value

Node

The node added.

Exceptions

DOMException

HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR: Raised if this node is of a type that does not allow children of the type of the newChild node, or if the node to append is one of this node's ancestors.

WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if newChild was created from a different document than the one that created this node.

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.

cloneNode
Returns a duplicate of this node, i.e., serves as a generic copy constructor for nodes. The duplicate node has no parent; (parentNode is null.).
Cloning an Element copies all attributes and their values, including those generated by the XML processor to represent defaulted attributes, but this method does not copy any text it contains unless it is a deep clone, since the text is contained in a child Text node. Cloning an Attribute directly, as opposed to be cloned as part of an Element cloning operation, returns a specified attribute (specified is true). Cloning any other type of node simply returns a copy of this node.
Note that cloning an immutable subtree results in a mutable copy, but the children of an EntityReference clone are readonly. In addition, clones of unspecified Attr nodes are specified. And, cloning Document, DocumentType, Entity, and Notation nodes is implementation dependent.
Parameters
deep of type boolean
If true, recursively clone the subtree under the specified node; if false, clone only the node itself (and its attributes, if it is an Element).

Return Value

Node

The duplicate node.

Exceptions

DOMException

NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if this node is a of type DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, ENTITY_NODE, or NOTATION_NODE and the implementation does not support cloning this type of node.

hasChildNodes
This is a convenience method to allow easy determination of whether a node has any children.
Return Value

boolean

true if the node has any children, false if the node has no children.

No Parameters
No Exceptions

insertBefore
Inserts the node newChild before the existing child node refChild. If refChild is null, insert newChild at the end of the list of children.
If newChild is a DocumentFragment object, all of its children are inserted, in the same order, before refChild. If the newChild is already in the tree, it is first removed.
Parameters
newChild of type Node
The node to insert.

refChild of type Node
The reference node, i.e., the node before which the new node must be inserted.

Return Value

Node

The node being inserted.

Exceptions

DOMException

HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR: Raised if this node is of a type that does not allow children of the type of the newChild node, or if the node to insert is one of this node's ancestors.

WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if newChild was created from a different document than the one that created this node.

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly or if the parent of the node being inserted is readonly.

NOT_FOUND_ERR: Raised if refChild is not a child of this node.

removeChild
Removes the child node indicated by oldChild from the list of children, and returns it.
Parameters
oldChild of type Node
The node being removed.

Return Value

Node

The node removed.

Exceptions

DOMException

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.

NOT_FOUND_ERR: Raised if oldChild is not a child of this node.

replaceChild
Replaces the child node oldChild with newChild in the list of children, and returns the oldChild node.
If newChild is a DocumentFragment object, oldChild is replaced by all of the DocumentFragment children, which are inserted in the same order. If the newChild is already in the tree, it is first removed.
Parameters
newChild of type Node
The new node to put in the child list.

oldChild of type Node
The node being replaced in the list.

Return Value

Node

The node replaced.

Exceptions

DOMException

HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR: Raised if this node is of a type that does not allow children of the type of the newChild node, or it the node to put in is one of this node's ancestors.

WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if newChild was created from a different document than the one that created this node.

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node or the parent of the new node is readonly.

NOT_FOUND_ERR: Raised if oldChild is not a child of this node.

Interface NodeList

The NodeList interface provides the abstraction of an ordered collection of nodes, without defining or constraining how this collection is implemented. NodeList objects in the DOM are live.

The items in the NodeList are accessible via an integral index, starting from 0.


IDL Definition
interface NodeList {
  Node               item(in unsigned long index);
  readonly attribute unsigned long    length;
};

Attributes
length of type unsigned long, readonly
The number of nodes in the list. The range of valid child node indices is 0 to length-1 inclusive.

Methods
item
Returns the indexth item in the collection. If index is greater than or equal to the number of nodes in the list, this returns null.
Parameters
index of type unsigned long
Index into the collection.

Return Value

Node

The node at the indexth position in the NodeList, or null if that is not a valid index.

No Exceptions

Interface NamedNodeMap

Objects implementing the NamedNodeMap interface are used to represent collections of nodes that can be accessed by name. Note that NamedNodeMap does not inherit from NodeList; NamedNodeMaps are not maintained in any particular order. Objects contained in an object implementing NamedNodeMap may also be accessed by an ordinal index, but this is simply to allow convenient enumeration of the contents of a NamedNodeMap, and does not imply that the DOM specifies an order to these Nodes.


IDL Definition
interface NamedNodeMap {
  Node               getNamedItem(in DOMString name);
  Node               setNamedItem(in Node arg)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  Node               removeNamedItem(in DOMString name)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  Node               item(in unsigned long index);
  readonly attribute unsigned long    length;
};

NamedNodeMap objects in the DOM are live.

Attributes
length of type unsigned long, readonly
The number of nodes in this map. The range of valid child node indices is 0 to length-1 inclusive.

Methods
getNamedItem
Retrieves a node specified by name.
Parameters
name of type DOMString
The nodeName of a node to retrieve.

Return Value

Node

A Node (of any type) with the specified nodeName, or null if it does not identify any node in this map.

No Exceptions

item
Returns the indexth item in the map. If index is greater than or equal to the number of nodes in this map, this returns null.
Parameters
index of type unsigned long
Index into this map.

Return Value

Node

The node at the indexth position in the map, or null if that is not a valid index.

No Exceptions

removeNamedItem
Removes a node specified by name. When this map contains the attributes attached to an element, if the removed attribute is known to have a default value, an attribute immediately appears containing the default value.
Parameters
name of type DOMString
The nodeName of the node to remove.

Return Value

Node

The node removed from this map if a node with such a name exists.

Exceptions

DOMException

NOT_FOUND_ERR: Raised if there is no node named name in this map.

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this map is readonly.

setNamedItem
Adds a node using its nodeName attribute. If a node with that name is already present in this map, it is replaced by the new one.
As the nodeName attribute is used to derive the name which the node must be stored under, multiple nodes of certain types (those that have a "special" string value) cannot be stored as the names would clash. This is seen as preferable to allowing nodes to be aliased.
Parameters
arg of type Node
A node to store in this map. The node will later be accessible using the value of its nodeName attribute.

Return Value

Node

If the new Node replaces an existing node the replaced Node is returned, otherwise null is returned.

Exceptions

DOMException

WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if arg was created from a different document than the one that created this map.

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this map is readonly.

INUSE_ATTRIBUTE_ERR: Raised if arg is an Attr that is already an attribute of another Element object. The DOM user must explicitly clone Attr nodes to re-use them in other elements.

Interface CharacterData

The CharacterData interface extends Node with a set of attributes and methods for accessing character data in the DOM. For clarity this set is defined here rather than on each object that uses these attributes and methods. No DOM objects correspond directly to CharacterData, though Text and others do inherit the interface from it. All offsets in this interface start from 0.

As explained in the DOMString interface, text strings in the DOM are represented in UTF-16, i.e. as a sequence of 16-bit units. In the following, the term 16-bit units is used whenever necessary to indicate that indexing on CharacterData is done in 16-bit units.


IDL Definition
interface CharacterData : Node {
           attribute DOMString        data;
                                        // raises(DOMException) on setting
                                        // raises(DOMException) on retrieval

  readonly attribute unsigned long    length;
  DOMString          substringData(in unsigned long offset, 
                                   in unsigned long count)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  void               appendData(in DOMString arg)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  void               insertData(in unsigned long offset, 
                                in DOMString arg)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  void               deleteData(in unsigned long offset, 
                                in unsigned long count)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  void               replaceData(in unsigned long offset, 
                                 in unsigned long count, 
                                 in DOMString arg)
                                        raises(DOMException);
};

Attributes
data of type DOMString
The character data of the node that implements this interface. The DOM implementation may not put arbitrary limits on the amount of data that may be stored in a CharacterData node. However, implementation limits may mean that the entirety of a node's data may not fit into a single DOMString. In such cases, the user may call substringData to retrieve the data in appropriately sized pieces.
Exceptions on setting

DOMException

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is readonly.

Exceptions on retrieval

DOMException

DOMSTRING_SIZE_ERR: Raised when it would return more characters than fit in a DOMString variable on the implementation platform.

length of type unsigned long, readonly
The number of 16-bit units that are available through data and the substringData method below. This may have the value zero, i.e., CharacterData nodes may be empty.

Methods
appendData
Append the string to the end of the character data of the node. Upon success, data provides access to the concatenation of data and the DOMString specified.
Parameters
arg of type DOMString
The DOMString to append.

Exceptions

DOMException

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.

No Return Value

deleteData
Remove a range of 16-bit units from the node. Upon success, data and length reflect the change.
Parameters
offset of type unsigned long
The offset from which to start removing.

count of type unsigned long
The number of 16-bit units to delete. If the sum of offset and count exceeds length then all 16-bit units from offset to the end of the data are deleted.

Exceptions

DOMException

INDEX_SIZE_ERR: Raised if the specified offset is negative or greater than the number of 16-bit units in data, or if the specified count is negative.

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.

No Return Value

insertData
Insert a string at the specified 16-bit unit offset.
Parameters
offset of type unsigned long
The character offset at which to insert.

arg of type DOMString
The DOMString to insert.

Exceptions

DOMException

INDEX_SIZE_ERR: Raised if the specified offset is negative or greater than the number of 16-bit units in data.

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.

No Return Value

replaceData
Replace the characters starting at the specified 16-bit unit offset with the specified string.
Parameters
offset of type unsigned long
The offset from which to start replacing.

count of type unsigned long
The number of 16-bit units to replace. If the sum of offset and count exceeds length, then all 16-bit units to the end of the data are replaced; (i.e., the effect is the same as a remove method call with the same range, followed by an append method invocation).

arg of type DOMString
The DOMString with which the range must be replaced.

Exceptions

DOMException

INDEX_SIZE_ERR: Raised if the specified offset is negative or greater than the number of 16-bit units in data, or if the specified count is negative.

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.

No Return Value

substringData
Extracts a range of data from the node.
Parameters
offset of type unsigned long
Start offset of substring to extract.

count of type unsigned long
The number of 16-bit units to extract.

Return Value

DOMString

The specified substring. If the sum of offset and count exceeds the length, then all 16-bit units to the end of the data are returned.

Exceptions

DOMException

INDEX_SIZE_ERR: Raised if the specified offset is negative or greater than the number of 16-bit units in data, or if the specified count is negative.

DOMSTRING_SIZE_ERR: Raised if the specified range of text does not fit into a DOMString.

Interface Attr

The Attr interface represents an attribute in an Element object. Typically the allowable values for the attribute are defined in a document type definition.

Attr objects inherit the Node interface, but since they are not actually child nodes of the element they describe, the DOM does not consider them part of the document tree. Thus, the Node attributes parentNode, previousSibling, and nextSibling have a null value for Attr objects. The DOM takes the view that attributes are properties of elements rather than having a separate identity from the elements they are associated with; this should make it more efficient to implement such features as default attributes associated with all elements of a given type. Furthermore, Attr nodes may not be immediate children of a DocumentFragment. However, they can be associated with Element nodes contained within a DocumentFragment. In short, users and implementors of the DOM need to be aware that Attr nodes have some things in common with other objects inheriting the Node interface, but they also are quite distinct.

The attribute's effective value is determined as follows: if this attribute has been explicitly assigned any value, that value is the attribute's effective value; otherwise, if there is a declaration for this attribute, and that declaration includes a default value, then that default value is the attribute's effective value; otherwise, the attribute does not exist on this element in the structure model until it has been explicitly added. Note that the nodeValue attribute on the Attr instance can also be used to retrieve the string version of the attribute's value(s).

In XML, where the value of an attribute can contain entity references, the child nodes of the Attr node provide a representation in which entity references are not expanded. These child nodes may be either Text or EntityReference nodes. Because the attribute type may be unknown, there are no tokenized attribute values.


IDL Definition
interface Attr : Node {
  readonly attribute DOMString        name;
  readonly attribute boolean          specified;
  // Modified in DOM Level 1:
           attribute DOMString        value;
                                        // raises(DOMException) on setting

};

Attributes
name of type DOMString, readonly
Returns the name of this attribute.

specified of type boolean, readonly
If this attribute was explicitly given a value in the original document, this is true; otherwise, it is false. Note that the implementation is in charge of this attribute, not the user. If the user changes the value of the attribute (even if it ends up having the same value as the default value) then the specified flag is automatically flipped to true. To re-specify the attribute as the default value from the DTD, the user must delete the attribute. The implementation will then make a new attribute available with specified set to false and the default value (if one exists).
In summary:
  • If the attribute has an assigned value in the document then specified is true, and the value is the assigned value.
  • If the attribute has no assigned value in the document and has a default value in the DTD, then specified is false, and the value is the default value in the DTD.
  • If the attribute has no assigned value in the document and has a value of #IMPLIED in the DTD, then the attribute does not appear in the structure model of the document.
  • If the attribute is not associated to any element (i.e. because it was just created or was obtained from some removal or cloning operation) specified is true.

value of type DOMString, modified in DOM Level 1
On retrieval, the value of the attribute is returned as a string. Character and general entity references are replaced with their values. See also the method getAttribute on the Element interface.
On setting, this creates a Text node with the unparsed contents of the string. I.e. any characters that an XML processor would recognize as markup are instead treated as literal text. See also the method setAttribute on the Element interface.
Exceptions on setting

DOMException

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is readonly.

Interface Element

The Element interface represents an element in an HTML or XML document. Elements may have attributes associated with them; since the Element interface inherits from Node, the generic Node interface attribute attributes may be used to retrieve the set of all attributes for an element. There are methods on the Element interface to retrieve either an Attr object by name or an attribute value by name. In XML, where an attribute value may contain entity references, an Attr object should be retrieved to examine the possibly fairly complex sub-tree representing the attribute value. On the other hand, in HTML, where all attributes have simple string values, methods to directly access an attribute value can safely be used as a convenience.


IDL Definition
interface Element : Node {
  readonly attribute DOMString        tagName;
  DOMString          getAttribute(in DOMString name);
  void               setAttribute(in DOMString name, 
                                  in DOMString value)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  void               removeAttribute(in DOMString name)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  Attr               getAttributeNode(in DOMString name);
  Attr               setAttributeNode(in Attr newAttr)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  Attr               removeAttributeNode(in Attr oldAttr)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  NodeList           getElementsByTagName(in DOMString name);
  void               normalize();
};

Attributes
tagName of type DOMString, readonly
The name of the element. For example, in: 

<elementExample id="demo"> 
        ... 
</elementExample> ,
tagName has the value "elementExample". Note that this is case-preserving in XML, as are all of the operations of the DOM. The HTML DOM returns the tagName of an HTML element in the canonical uppercase form, regardless of the case in the source HTML document.

Methods
getAttribute
Retrieves an attribute value by name.
Parameters
name of type DOMString
The name of the attribute to retrieve.

Return Value

DOMString

The Attr value as a string, or the empty string if that attribute does not have a specified or default value.

No Exceptions

getAttributeNode
Retrieves an Attr node by name.
Parameters
name of type DOMString
The name of the attribute to retrieve.

Return Value

Attr

The Attr node with the specified attribute name or null if there is no such attribute.

No Exceptions

getElementsByTagName
Returns a NodeList of all descendant Elements with a given tag name, in the order in which they would be encountered in a preorder traversal of the Element tree.
Parameters
name of type DOMString
The name of the tag to match on. The special value "*" matches all tags.

Return Value

NodeList

A list of matching Element nodes.

No Exceptions

normalize
Puts all Text nodes in the full depth of the sub-tree underneath this Element, including attribute nodes, into a "normal" form where only markup (e.g., tags, comments, processing instructions, CDATA sections, and entity references) separates Text nodes, i.e., there are no adjacent Text nodes. This can be used to ensure that the DOM view of a document is the same as if it were saved and re-loaded, and is useful when operations (such as XPointer [XPointer] lookups) that depend on a particular document tree structure are to be used.

Note: In cases where the document contains CDATASections, the normalize operation alone may not be sufficient, since XPointers do not differentiate between Text nodes and CDATASection nodes.

No Parameters
No Return Value
No Exceptions

removeAttribute
Removes an attribute by name. If the removed attribute is known to have a default value, an attribute immediately appears containing the default value.
Parameters
name of type DOMString
The name of the attribute to remove.

Exceptions

DOMException

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.

No Return Value

removeAttributeNode
Removes the specified attribute. If the removed Attr has a default value it is immediately replaced.
Parameters
oldAttr of type Attr
The Attr node to remove from the attribute list.

Return Value

Attr

The Attr node that was removed.

Exceptions

DOMException

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.

NOT_FOUND_ERR: Raised if oldAttr is not an attribute of the element.

setAttribute
Adds a new attribute. If an attribute with that name is already present in the element, its value is changed to be that of the value parameter. This value is a simple string; it is not parsed as it is being set. So any markup (such as syntax to be recognized as an entity reference) is treated as literal text, and needs to be appropriately escaped by the implementation when it is written out. In order to assign an attribute value that contains entity references, the user must create an Attr node plus any Text and EntityReference nodes, build the appropriate subtree, and use setAttributeNode to assign it as the value of an attribute.
Parameters
name of type DOMString
The name of the attribute to create or alter.

value of type DOMString
Value to set in string form.

Exceptions

DOMException

INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified name contains an illegal character.

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.

No Return Value

setAttributeNode
Adds a new attribute node. If an attribute with that name is already present in the element, it is replaced by the new one.
Parameters
newAttr of type Attr
The Attr node to add to the attribute list.

Return Value

Attr

If the newAttr attribute replaces an existing attribute, the replaced Attr node is returned, otherwise null is returned.

Exceptions

DOMException

WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if newAttr was created from a different document than the one that created the element.

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.

INUSE_ATTRIBUTE_ERR: Raised if newAttr is already an attribute of another Element object. The DOM user must explicitly clone Attr nodes to re-use them in other elements.

Interface Text

The Text interface inherits from CharacterData and represents the textual content (termed character data in XML) of an Element or Attr. If there is no markup inside an element's content, the text is contained in a single object implementing the Text interface that is the only child of the element. If there is markup, it is parsed into the information items (elements, comments, etc.) and Text nodes that form the list of children of the element.

When a document is first made available via the DOM, there is only one Text node for each block of text. Users may create adjacent Text nodes that represent the contents of a given element without any intervening markup, but should be aware that there is no way to represent the separations between these nodes in XML or HTML, so they will not (in general) persist between DOM editing sessions. The normalize() method on Element merges any such adjacent Text objects into a single node for each block of text.


IDL Definition
interface Text : CharacterData {
  Text               splitText(in unsigned long offset)
                                        raises(DOMException);
};

Methods
splitText
Breaks this node into two nodes at the specified offset, keeping both in the tree as siblings. This node then only contains all the content up to the offset point. A new node of the same type, which is inserted as the next sibling of this node, contains all the content at and after the offset point. When the offset is equal to the length of this node, the new node has no data.
Parameters
offset of type unsigned long
The 16-bit unit offset at which to split, starting from 0.

Return Value

Text

The new node, of the same type as this node.

Exceptions

DOMException

INDEX_SIZE_ERR: Raised if the specified offset is negative or greater than the number of 16-bit units in data.

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.

Interface Comment

This interface inherits from CharacterData and represents the content of a comment, i.e., all the characters between the starting '<!--' and ending '-->'. Note that this is the definition of a comment in XML, and, in practice, HTML, although some HTML tools may implement the full SGML comment structure.


IDL Definition
interface Comment : CharacterData {
};

1.3. Extended Interfaces

The interfaces defined here form part of the DOM Level 1 Core specification, but objects that expose these interfaces will never be encountered in a DOM implementation that deals only with HTML. As such, HTML-only DOM implementations do not need to have objects that implement these interfaces.

A DOM application can use the hasFeature method of the DOMImplementation interface to determine whether they are supported or not. The feature string for all the interfaces listed in this section is "XML" and the version is "1.0".

Interface CDATASection

CDATA sections are used to escape blocks of text containing characters that would otherwise be regarded as markup. The only delimiter that is recognized in a CDATA section is the "]]>" string that ends the CDATA section. CDATA sections cannot be nested. Their primary purpose is for including material such as XML fragments, without needing to escape all the delimiters.

The DOMString attribute of the Text node holds the text that is contained by the CDATA section. Note that this may contain characters that need to be escaped outside of CDATA sections and that, depending on the character encoding ("charset") chosen for serialization, it may be impossible to write out some characters as part of a CDATA section.

The CDATASection interface inherits from the CharacterData interface through the Text interface. Adjacent CDATASection nodes are not merged by use of the normalize method on the Element interface.

Note: Because no markup is recognized within a CDATASection, character numeric references cannot be used as an escape mechanism when serializing. Therefore, action needs to be taken when serializing a CDATASection with a character encoding where some of the contained characters cannot be represented. Failure to do so would not produce well-formed XML.
One potential solution in the serialization process is to end the CDATA section before the character, output the character using a character reference or entity reference, and open a new CDATA section for any further characters in the text node. Note, however, that some code conversion libraries at the time of writing do not return an error or exception when a character is missing from the encoding, making the task of ensuring that data is not corrupted on serialization more difficult.


IDL Definition
interface CDATASection : Text {
};

Interface DocumentType

Each Document has a doctype attribute whose value is either null or a DocumentType object. The DocumentType interface in the DOM Level 1 Core provides an interface to the list of entities that are defined for the document, and little else because the effect of namespaces and the various XML scheme efforts on DTD representation are not clearly understood as of this writing.

The DOM Level 1 doesn't support editing DocumentType nodes.


IDL Definition
interface DocumentType : Node {
  readonly attribute DOMString        name;
  readonly attribute NamedNodeMap     entities;
  readonly attribute NamedNodeMap     notations;
};

Attributes
entities of type NamedNodeMap, readonly
A NamedNodeMap containing the general entities, both external and internal, declared in the DTD. Parameter entities are not contained. Duplicates are discarded. For example in: 
<!DOCTYPE ex SYSTEM "ex.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY foo "foo">
  <!ENTITY bar "bar">
  <!ENTITY bar "bar2">
  <!ENTITY % baz "baz">
]>
<ex/>
the interface provides access to foo and the first declaration of bar but not the second declaration of bar or baz. Every node in this map also implements the Entity interface.
The DOM Level 1 does not support editing entities, therefore entities cannot be altered in any way.

name of type DOMString, readonly
The name of DTD; i.e., the name immediately following the DOCTYPE keyword.

notations of type NamedNodeMap, readonly
A NamedNodeMap containing the notations declared in the DTD. Duplicates are discarded. Every node in this map also implements the Notation interface.
The DOM Level 1 does not support editing notations, therefore notations cannot be altered in any way.

Interface Notation

This interface represents a notation declared in the DTD. A notation either declares, by name, the format of an unparsed entity (see section 4.7 of the XML 1.0 specification [XML]), or is used for formal declaration of processing instruction targets (see section 2.6 of the XML 1.0 specification [XML]). The nodeName attribute inherited from Node is set to the declared name of the notation.

The DOM Level 1 does not support editing Notation nodes; they are therefore readonly.

A Notation node does not have any parent.


IDL Definition
interface Notation : Node {
  readonly attribute DOMString        publicId;
  readonly attribute DOMString        systemId;
};

Attributes
publicId of type DOMString, readonly
The public identifier of this notation. If the public identifier was not specified, this is null.

systemId of type DOMString, readonly
The system identifier of this notation. If the system identifier was not specified, this is null.

Interface Entity

This interface represents an entity, either parsed or unparsed, in an XML document. Note that this models the entity itself not the entity declaration. Entity declaration modeling has been left for a later Level of the DOM specification.

The nodeName attribute that is inherited from Node contains the name of the entity.

An XML processor may choose to completely expand entities before the structure model is passed to the DOM; in this case there will be no EntityReference nodes in the document tree.

XML does not mandate that a non-validating XML processor read and process entity declarations made in the external subset or declared in external parameter entities. This means that parsed entities declared in the external subset need not be expanded by some classes of applications, and that the replacement value of the entity may not be available. When the replacement value is available, the corresponding Entity node's child list represents the structure of that replacement text. Otherwise, the child list is empty.

The resolution of the children of the Entity (the replacement value) may be lazily evaluated; actions by the user (such as calling the childNodes method on the Entity Node) are assumed to trigger the evaluation.

The DOM Level 1 does not support editing Entity nodes; if a user wants to make changes to the contents of an Entity, every related EntityReference node has to be replaced in the structure model by a clone of the Entity's contents, and then the desired changes must be made to each of those clones instead. Entity nodes and all their descendants are readonly.

An Entity node does not have any parent.


IDL Definition
interface Entity : Node {
  readonly attribute DOMString        publicId;
  readonly attribute DOMString        systemId;
  readonly attribute DOMString        notationName;
};

Attributes
notationName of type DOMString, readonly
For unparsed entities, the name of the notation for the entity. For parsed entities, this is null.

publicId of type DOMString, readonly
The public identifier associated with the entity, if specified. If the public identifier was not specified, this is null.

systemId of type DOMString, readonly
The system identifier associated with the entity, if specified. If the system identifier was not specified, this is null.

Interface EntityReference

EntityReference objects may be inserted into the structure model when an entity reference is in the source document, or when the user wishes to insert an entity reference. Note that character references and references to predefined entities are considered to be expanded by the HTML or XML processor so that characters are represented by their Unicode equivalent rather than by an entity reference. Moreover, the XML processor may completely expand references to entities while building the structure model, instead of providing EntityReference objects. If it does provide such objects, then for a given EntityReference node, it may be that there is no Entity node representing the referenced entity. If such an Entity exists, then the child list of the EntityReference node is the same as that of the Entity node.

As for Entity nodes, EntityReference nodes and all their descendants are readonly.

The resolution of the children of the EntityReference (the replacement value of the referenced Entity) may be lazily evaluated; actions by the user (such as calling the childNodes method on the EntityReference node) are assumed to trigger the evaluation.


IDL Definition
interface EntityReference : Node {
};

Interface ProcessingInstruction

The ProcessingInstruction interface represents a "processing instruction", used in XML as a way to keep processor-specific information in the text of the document.


IDL Definition
interface ProcessingInstruction : Node {
  readonly attribute DOMString        target;
           attribute DOMString        data;
                                        // raises(DOMException) on setting

};

Attributes
data of type DOMString
The content of this processing instruction. This is from the first non white space character after the target to the character immediately preceding the ?>.
Exceptions on setting

DOMException

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is readonly.

target of type DOMString, readonly
The target of this processing instruction. XML defines this as being the first token following the markup that begins the processing instruction.

29 September, 2000

2. Document Object Model HTML

Editors
Mike Champion, ArborText
Vidur Apparao, Netscape
Scott Isaacs, Microsoft (until January 1998)
Chris Wilson, Microsoft (after January 1998)
Ian Jacobs, W3C

Table of contents

2.1. Introduction

This section extends the Level 1 Core API to describe objects and methods specific to HTML documents [HTML4.0]. In general, the functionality needed to manipulate hierarchical document structures, elements, and attributes will be found in the core section; functionality that depends on the specific elements defined in HTML will be found in this section.

The goals of the HTML-specific DOM API are:

The key differences between the core DOM and the HTML application of DOM is that the HTML Document Object Model exposes a number of convenience methods and properties that are consistent with the existing models and are more appropriate to script writers. In many cases, these enhancements are not applicable to a general DOM because they rely on the presence of a predefined DTD. The transitional and frameset DTDs for HTML 4.0 are assumed. Interoperability between implementations is only guaranteed for elements and attributes that are specified in the HTML 4.0 DTDs.

More specifically, this document includes the following specializations for HTML:

The DOM Level 1 does not include mechanisms to access and modify style specified through CSS 1. Furthermore, it does not define an event model for HTML documents. This functionality is planned to be specified in a future Level of this specification.

The interfaces found within this section are not mandatory. A DOM application can use the hasFeature method of the DOMImplementation interface to determine whether they are supported or not. The feature string for all the interfaces listed in this section is "HTML" and the version is "1.0".

The interfaces in this specification are designed for HTML 4.0 documents, and not for XHTML documents. Use of the HTML DOM with XHTML documents may result in incorrect processing; see Appendix C11 in the [XHTML10] for more information.

2.2. HTML Application of Core DOM

2.2.1. Naming Conventions

The HTML DOM follows a naming convention for properties, methods, events, collections, and data types. All names are defined as one or more English words concatenated together to form a single string.

2.2.1.1. Properties and Methods

The property or method name starts with the initial keyword in lowercase, and each subsequent word starts with a capital letter. For example, a property that returns document meta information such as the date the file was created might be named "fileDateCreated". In the ECMAScript binding, properties are exposed as properties of a given object. In Java, properties are exposed with get and set methods.

2.2.1.2. Non-HTML 4.0 interfaces and attributes

While most of the interfaces defined below can be mapped directly to elements defined in the HTML 4.0 Recommendation, some of them cannot. Similarly, not all attributes listed below have counterparts in the HTML 4.0 specification (and some do, but have been renamed to avoid conflicts with scripting languages). Interfaces and attribute definitions that have links to the HTML 4.0 specification have corresponding element and attribute definitions there; all others are added by this specification, either for convenience or backwards compatibility with DOM Level 0 implementations.

2.3. Miscellaneous Object Definitions

Interface HTMLCollection

An HTMLCollection is a list of nodes. An individual node may be accessed by either ordinal index or the node's name or id attributes. Note: Collections in the HTML DOM are assumed to be live meaning that they are automatically updated when the underlying document is changed.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLCollection {
  readonly attribute unsigned long    length;
  Node               item(in unsigned long index);
  Node               namedItem(in DOMString name);
};

Attributes
length of type unsigned long, readonly
This attribute specifies the length or size of the list.

Methods
item
This method retrieves a node specified by ordinal index. Nodes are numbered in tree order (depth-first traversal order).
Parameters
index of type unsigned long
The index of the node to be fetched. The index origin is 0.

Return Value

Node

The Node at the corresponding position upon success. A value of null is returned if the index is out of range.

No Exceptions

namedItem
This method retrieves a Node using a name. It first searches for a Node with a matching id attribute. If it doesn't find one, it then searches for a Node with a matching name attribute, but only on those elements that are allowed a name attribute.
Parameters
name of type DOMString
The name of the Node to be fetched.

Return Value

Node

The Node with a name or id attribute whose value corresponds to the specified string. Upon failure (e.g., no node with this name exists), returns null.

No Exceptions

2.4. Objects related to HTML documents

Interface HTMLDocument

An HTMLDocument is the root of the HTML hierarchy and holds the entire content. Besides providing access to the hierarchy, it also provides some convenience methods for accessing certain sets of information from the document.

The following properties have been deprecated in favor of the corresponding ones for the BODY element:

  • alinkColor
  • background
  • bgColor
  • fgColor
  • linkColor
  • vlinkColor


IDL Definition
interface HTMLDocument : Document {
           attribute DOMString        title;
  readonly attribute DOMString        referrer;
  readonly attribute DOMString        domain;
  readonly attribute DOMString        URL;
           attribute HTMLElement      body;
  readonly attribute HTMLCollection   images;
  readonly attribute HTMLCollection   applets;
  readonly attribute HTMLCollection   links;
  readonly attribute HTMLCollection   forms;
  readonly attribute HTMLCollection   anchors;
           attribute DOMString        cookie;
  void               open();
  void               close();
  void               write(in DOMString text);
  void               writeln(in DOMString text);
  Element            getElementById(in DOMString elementId);
  NodeList           getElementsByName(in DOMString elementName);
};

Attributes
URL of type DOMString, readonly
The complete URI of the document.

anchors of type HTMLCollection, readonly
A collection of all the anchor (A) elements in a document with a value for the name attribute.Note. For reasons of backwards compatibility, the returned set of anchors only contains those anchors created with the name attribute, not those created with the id attribute.

applets of type HTMLCollection, readonly
A collection of all the OBJECT elements that include applets and APPLET (deprecated) elements in a document.

body of type HTMLElement
The element that contains the content for the document. In documents with BODY contents, returns the BODY element. In frameset documents, this returns the outermost FRAMESET element.

cookie of type DOMString
The cookies associated with this document. If there are none, the value is an empty string. Otherwise, the value is a string: a semicolon-delimited list of "name=value" pairs for all the cookies associated with the page. For example, name=value;expires=date.

domain of type DOMString, readonly
The domain name of the server that served the document, or null if the server cannot be identified by a domain name.

forms of type HTMLCollection, readonly
A collection of all the forms of a document.

images of type HTMLCollection, readonly
A collection of all the IMG elements in a document. The behavior is limited to IMG elements for backwards compatibility.

links of type HTMLCollection, readonly
A collection of all AREA elements and anchor (A) elements in a document with a value for the href attribute.

referrer of type DOMString, readonly
Returns the URI of the page that linked to this page. The value is an empty string if the user navigated to the page directly (not through a link, but, for example, via a bookmark).

title of type DOMString
The title of a document as specified by the TITLE element in the head of the document.

Methods
close
Closes a document stream opened by open() and forces rendering.

No Parameters
No Return Value
No Exceptions

getElementById
Returns the Element whose id is given by elementId. If no such element exists, returns null. Behavior is not defined if more than one element has this id.
Parameters
elementId of type DOMString
The unique id value for an element.

Return Value

Element

The matching element.

No Exceptions

getElementsByName
Returns the (possibly empty) collection of elements whose name value is given by elementName.
Parameters
elementName of type DOMString
The name attribute value for an element.

Return Value

NodeList

The matching elements.

No Exceptions

open
Note. This method and the ones following allow a user to add to or replace the structure model of a document using strings of unparsed HTML. At the time of writing alternate methods for providing similar functionality for both HTML and XML documents were being considered. The following methods may be deprecated at some point in the future in favor of a more general-purpose mechanism.
Open a document stream for writing. If a document exists in the target, this method clears it.

No Parameters
No Return Value
No Exceptions

write
Write a string of text to a document stream opened by open(). The text is parsed into the document's structure model.
Parameters
text of type DOMString
The string to be parsed into some structure in the document structure model.

No Return Value
No Exceptions

writeln
Write a string of text followed by a newline character to a document stream opened by open(). The text is parsed into the document's structure model.
Parameters
text of type DOMString
The string to be parsed into some structure in the document structure model.

No Return Value
No Exceptions

2.5. HTML Elements

2.5.1. Property Attributes

HTML attributes are exposed as properties on the element object. The DOM naming conventions always determine the name of the exposed property, and is independent of the case of the attribute in the source document. The data type of the property is determined by the type of the attribute as determined by the HTML 4.0 transitional and frameset DTDs. The attributes have the semantics (including case-sensitivity) given in the HTML 4.0 specification.

The attributes are exposed as properties for compatibility with DOM Level 0. This usage is deprecated because it can not be generalized to all possible attribute names, as is required both for XML and potentially for future versions of HTML. We recommend the use of generic methods on the core Element interface for setting, getting and removing attributes.
DTD Data TypeObject Model Data Type
CDATA DOMString
Value list (e.g., (left | right | center)) DOMString
one-value Value list (e.g., (disabled)) boolean
Number long int

The return value of an attribute that has a data type that is a value list is always capitalized, independent of the case of the value in the source document. For example, if the value of the align attribute on a P element is "left" then it is returned as "Left". For attributes with the CDATA data type, the case of the return value is that given in the source document.

2.5.2. Naming Exceptions

To avoid namespace conflicts, an attribute with the same name as a keyword in one of our chosen binding languages is prefixed. For HTML, the prefix used is "html". For example, the for attribute of the LABEL element collides with loop construct naming conventions and is renamed htmlFor.

2.5.3. Exposing Element Type Names (tagName)

The element type names exposed through a property are in uppercase. For example, the body element type name is exposed through the tagName property as BODY.

2.5.4. The HTMLElement interface

Interface HTMLElement

All HTML element interfaces derive from this class. Elements that only expose the HTML core attributes are represented by the base HTMLElement interface. These elements are as follows:

  • HEAD
  • special: SUB, SUP, SPAN, BDO
  • font: TT, I, B, U, S, STRIKE, BIG, SMALL
  • phrase: EM, STRONG, DFN, CODE, SAMP, KBD, VAR, CITE, ACRONYM, ABBR
  • list: DD, DT
  • NOFRAMES, NOSCRIPT
  • ADDRESS, CENTER

Note. The style attribute for this interface is reserved for future usage.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLElement : Element {
           attribute DOMString        id;
           attribute DOMString        title;
           attribute DOMString        lang;
           attribute DOMString        dir;
           attribute DOMString        className;
};

Attributes
className of type DOMString
The class attribute of the element. This attribute has been renamed due to conflicts with the "class" keyword exposed by many languages. See the class attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

dir of type DOMString
Specifies the base direction of directionally neutral text and the directionality of tables. See the dir attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

id of type DOMString
The element's identifier. See the id attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

lang of type DOMString
Language code defined in RFC 1766. See the lang attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

title of type DOMString
The element's advisory title. See the title attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

2.5.5. Object definitions

Interface HTMLHtmlElement

Root of an HTML document. See the HTML element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLHtmlElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        version;
};

Attributes
version of type DOMString
Version information about the document's DTD. See the version attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLHeadElement

Document head information. See the HEAD element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLHeadElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        profile;
};

Attributes
profile of type DOMString
URI designating a metadata profile. See the profile attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLLinkElement

The LINK element specifies a link to an external resource, and defines this document's relationship to that resource (or vice versa). See the LINK element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLLinkElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute boolean          disabled;
           attribute DOMString        charset;
           attribute DOMString        href;
           attribute DOMString        hreflang;
           attribute DOMString        media;
           attribute DOMString        rel;
           attribute DOMString        rev;
           attribute DOMString        target;
           attribute DOMString        type;
};

Attributes
charset of type DOMString
The character encoding of the resource being linked to. See the charset attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

disabled of type boolean
Enables/disables the link. This is currently only used for style sheet links, and may be used to activate or deactivate style sheets.

href of type DOMString
The URI of the linked resource. See the href attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

hreflang of type DOMString
Language code of the linked resource. See the hreflang attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

media of type DOMString
Designed for use with one or more target media. See the media attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

rel of type DOMString
Forward link type. See the rel attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

rev of type DOMString
Reverse link type. See the rev attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

target of type DOMString
Frame to render the resource in. See the target attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

type of type DOMString
Advisory content type. See the type attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLTitleElement

The document title. See the TITLE element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLTitleElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        text;
};

Attributes
text of type DOMString
The specified title as a string.

Interface HTMLMetaElement

This contains generic meta-information about the document. See the META element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLMetaElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        content;
           attribute DOMString        httpEquiv;
           attribute DOMString        name;
           attribute DOMString        scheme;
};

Attributes
content of type DOMString
Associated information. See the content attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

httpEquiv of type DOMString
HTTP response header name. See the http-equiv attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

name of type DOMString
Meta information name. See the name attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

scheme of type DOMString
Select form of content. See the scheme attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLBaseElement

Document base URI. See the BASE element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLBaseElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        href;
           attribute DOMString        target;
};

Attributes
href of type DOMString
The base URI. See the href attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

target of type DOMString
The default target frame. See the target attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLIsIndexElement

This element is used for single-line text input. See the ISINDEX element definition in HTML 4.0. This element is deprecated in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLIsIndexElement : HTMLElement {
  readonly attribute HTMLFormElement  form;
           attribute DOMString        prompt;
};

Attributes
form of type HTMLFormElement, readonly
Returns the FORM element containing this control. Returns null if this control is not within the context of a form.

prompt of type DOMString
The prompt message. See the prompt attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLStyleElement

Style information. A more detailed style sheet object model is planned to be defined in a separate document. See the STYLE element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLStyleElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute boolean          disabled;
           attribute DOMString        media;
           attribute DOMString        type;
};

Attributes
disabled of type boolean
Enables/disables the style sheet.

media of type DOMString
Designed for use with one or more target media. See the media attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

type of type DOMString
The content type of the style sheet language. See the type attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLBodyElement

The HTML document body. This element is always present in the DOM API, even if the tags are not present in the source document. See the BODY element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLBodyElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        aLink;
           attribute DOMString        background;
           attribute DOMString        bgColor;
           attribute DOMString        link;
           attribute DOMString        text;
           attribute DOMString        vLink;
};

Attributes
aLink of type DOMString
Color of active links (after mouse-button down, but before mouse-button up). See the alink attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

background of type DOMString
URI of the background texture tile image. See the background attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

bgColor of type DOMString
Document background color. See the bgcolor attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

link of type DOMString
Color of links that are not active and unvisited. See the link attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

text of type DOMString
Document text color. See the text attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

vLink of type DOMString
Color of links that have been visited by the user. See the vlink attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLFormElement

The FORM element encompasses behavior similar to a collection and an element. It provides direct access to the contained input elements as well as the attributes of the form element. See the FORM element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLFormElement : HTMLElement {
  readonly attribute HTMLCollection   elements;
  readonly attribute long             length;
           attribute DOMString        name;
           attribute DOMString        acceptCharset;
           attribute DOMString        action;
           attribute DOMString        enctype;
           attribute DOMString        method;
           attribute DOMString        target;
  void               submit();
  void               reset();
};

Attributes
acceptCharset of type DOMString
List of character sets supported by the server. See the accept-charset attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

action of type DOMString
Server-side form handler. See the action attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

elements of type HTMLCollection, readonly
Returns a collection of all control elements in the form.

enctype of type DOMString
The content type of the submitted form, generally "application/x-www-form-urlencoded". See the enctype attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

length of type long, readonly
The number of form controls in the form.

method of type DOMString
HTTP method used to submit form. See the method attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

name of type DOMString
Names the form.

target of type DOMString
Frame to render the resource in. See the target attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

Methods
reset
Restores a form element's default values. It performs the same action as a reset button.

No Parameters
No Return Value
No Exceptions

submit
Submits the form. It performs the same action as a submit button.

No Parameters
No Return Value
No Exceptions

Interface HTMLSelectElement

The select element allows the selection of an option. The contained options can be directly accessed through the select element as a collection. See the SELECT element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLSelectElement : HTMLElement {
  readonly attribute DOMString        type;
           attribute long             selectedIndex;
           attribute DOMString        value;
  readonly attribute long             length;
  readonly attribute HTMLFormElement  form;
  readonly attribute HTMLCollection   options;
           attribute boolean          disabled;
           attribute boolean          multiple;
           attribute DOMString        name;
           attribute long             size;
           attribute long             tabIndex;
  void               add(in HTMLElement element, 
                         in HTMLElement before)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  void               remove(in long index);
  void               blur();
  void               focus();
};

Attributes
disabled of type boolean
The control is unavailable in this context. See the disabled attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

form of type HTMLFormElement, readonly
Returns the FORM element containing this control. Returns null if this control is not within the context of a form.

length of type long, readonly
The number of options in this SELECT.

multiple of type boolean
If true, multiple OPTION elements may be selected in this SELECT. See the multiple attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

name of type DOMString
Form control or object name when submitted with a form. See the name attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

options of type HTMLCollection, readonly
The collection of OPTION elements contained by this element.

selectedIndex of type long
The ordinal index of the selected option, starting from 0. The value -1 is returned if no element is selected. If multiple options are selected, the index of the first selected option is returned.

size of type long
Number of visible rows. See the size attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

tabIndex of type long
Index that represents the element's position in the tabbing order. See the tabindex attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

type of type DOMString, readonly
The type of this form control. This is the string "select-multiple" when the multiple attribute is true and the string "select-one" when false.

value of type DOMString
The current form control value.

Methods
add
Add a new element to the collection of OPTION elements for this SELECT.
Parameters
element of type HTMLElement
The element to add.

before of type HTMLElement
The element to insert before, or null for the tail of the list.

Exceptions

DOMException

NOT_FOUND_ERR: Raised if before is not a descendant of the SELECT element.

No Return Value

blur
Removes keyboard focus from this element.

No Parameters
No Return Value
No Exceptions

focus
Gives keyboard focus to this element.

No Parameters
No Return Value
No Exceptions

remove
Remove an element from the collection of OPTION elements for this SELECT. Does nothing if no element has the given index.
Parameters
index of type long
The index of the item to remove, starting from 0.

No Return Value
No Exceptions

Interface HTMLOptGroupElement

Group options together in logical subdivisions. See the OPTGROUP element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLOptGroupElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute boolean          disabled;
           attribute DOMString        label;
};

Attributes
disabled of type boolean
The control is unavailable in this context. See the disabled attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

label of type DOMString
Assigns a label to this option group. See the label attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLOptionElement

A selectable choice. See the OPTION element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLOptionElement : HTMLElement {
  readonly attribute HTMLFormElement  form;
           attribute boolean          defaultSelected;
  readonly attribute DOMString        text;
  readonly attribute long             index;
           attribute boolean          disabled;
           attribute DOMString        label;
           attribute boolean          selected;
           attribute DOMString        value;
};

Attributes
defaultSelected of type boolean
Represents the value of the HTML selected attribute. The value of this attribute does not change if the state of the corresponding form control, in an interactive user agent, changes. Changing defaultSelected, however, resets the state of the form control. See the selected attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

disabled of type boolean
The control is unavailable in this context. See the disabled attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

form of type HTMLFormElement, readonly
Returns the FORM element containing this control. Returns null if this control is not within the context of a form.

index of type long, readonly
The index of this OPTION in its parent SELECT, starting from 0.

label of type DOMString
Option label for use in hierarchical menus. See the label attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

selected of type boolean
Represents the current state of the corresponding form control, in an interactive user agent. Changing this attribute changes the state of the form control, but does not change the value of the HTML selected attribute of the element.

text of type DOMString, readonly
The text contained within the option element.

value of type DOMString
The current form control value. See the value attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLInputElement

Form control. Note. Depending upon the environment in which the page is being viewed, the value property may be read-only for the file upload input type. For the "password" input type, the actual value returned may be masked to prevent unauthorized use. See the INPUT element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLInputElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        defaultValue;
           attribute boolean          defaultChecked;
  readonly attribute HTMLFormElement  form;
           attribute DOMString        accept;
           attribute DOMString        accessKey;
           attribute DOMString        align;
           attribute DOMString        alt;
           attribute boolean          checked;
           attribute boolean          disabled;
           attribute long             maxLength;
           attribute DOMString        name;
           attribute boolean          readOnly;
           attribute DOMString        size;
           attribute DOMString        src;
           attribute long             tabIndex;
  readonly attribute DOMString        type;
           attribute DOMString        useMap;
           attribute DOMString        value;
  void               blur();
  void               focus();
  void               select();
  void               click();
};

Attributes
accept of type DOMString
A comma-separated list of content types that a server processing this form will handle correctly. See the accept attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

accessKey of type DOMString
A single character access key to give access to the form control. See the accesskey attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

align of type DOMString
Aligns this object (vertically or horizontally) with respect to its surrounding text. See the align attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

alt of type DOMString
Alternate text for user agents not rendering the normal content of this element. See the alt attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

checked of type boolean
When the type attribute of the element has the value "Radio" or "Checkbox", this represents the current state of the form control, in an interactive user agent. Changes to this attribute change the state of the form control, but do not change the value of the HTML value attribute of the element.

defaultChecked of type boolean
When type has the value "Radio" or "Checkbox", this represents the HTML checked attribute of the element. The value of this attribute does not change if the state of the corresponding form control, in an interactive user agent, changes. Changes to this attribute, however, resets the state of the form control. See the checked attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

defaultValue of type DOMString
When the type attribute of the element has the value "Text", "File" or "Password", this represents the HTML value attribute of the element. The value of this attribute does not change if the contents of the corresponding form control, in an interactive user agent, changes. Changing this attribute, however, resets the contents of the form control. See the value attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

disabled of type boolean
The control is unavailable in this context. See the disabled attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

form of type HTMLFormElement, readonly
Returns the FORM element containing this control. Returns null if this control is not within the context of a form.

maxLength of type long
Maximum number of characters for text fields, when type has the value "Text" or "Password". See the maxlength attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

name of type DOMString
Form control or object name when submitted with a form. See the name attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

readOnly of type boolean
This control is read-only. Relevant only when type has the value "Text" or "Password". See the readonly attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

size of type DOMString
Size information. The precise meaning is specific to each type of field. See the size attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

src of type DOMString
When the type attribute has the value "Image", this attribute specifies the location of the image to be used to decorate the graphical submit button. See the src attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

tabIndex of type long
Index that represents the element's position in the tabbing order. See the tabindex attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

type of type DOMString, readonly
The type of control created. See the type attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

useMap of type DOMString
Use client-side image map. See the usemap attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

value of type DOMString
When the type attribute of the element has the value "Text", "File" or "Password", this represents the current contents of the corresponding form control, in an interactive user agent. Changing this attribute changes the contents of the form control, but does not change the value of the HTML value attribute of the element. When the type attribute of the element has the value "Button", "Hidden", "Submit", "Reset", "Image", "Checkbox" or "Radio", this represents the HTML value attribute of the element. See the value attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

Methods
blur
Removes keyboard focus from this element.

No Parameters
No Return Value
No Exceptions

click
Simulate a mouse-click. For INPUT elements whose type attribute has one of the following values: "Button", "Checkbox", "Radio", "Reset", or "Submit".

No Parameters
No Return Value
No Exceptions

focus
Gives keyboard focus to this element.

No Parameters
No Return Value
No Exceptions

select
Select the contents of the text area. For INPUT elements whose type attribute has one of the following values: "Text", "File", or "Password".

No Parameters
No Return Value
No Exceptions

Interface HTMLTextAreaElement

Multi-line text field. See the TEXTAREA element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLTextAreaElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        defaultValue;
  readonly attribute HTMLFormElement  form;
           attribute DOMString        accessKey;
           attribute long             cols;
           attribute boolean          disabled;
           attribute DOMString        name;
           attribute boolean          readOnly;
           attribute long             rows;
           attribute long             tabIndex;
  readonly attribute DOMString        type;
           attribute DOMString        value;
  void               blur();
  void               focus();
  void               select();
};

Attributes
accessKey of type DOMString
A single character access key to give access to the form control. See the accesskey attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

cols of type long
Width of control (in characters). See the cols attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

defaultValue of type DOMString
Represents the contents of the element. The value of this attribute does not change if the contents of the corresponding form control, in an interactive user agent, changes. Changing this attribute, however, resets the contents of the form control.

disabled of type boolean
The control is unavailable in this context. See the disabled attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

form of type HTMLFormElement, readonly
Returns the FORM element containing this control. Returns null if this control is not within the context of a form.

name of type DOMString
Form control or object name when submitted with a form. See the name attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

readOnly of type boolean
This control is read-only. See the readonly attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

rows of type long
Number of text rows. See the rows attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

tabIndex of type long
Index that represents the element's position in the tabbing order. See the tabindex attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

type of type DOMString, readonly
The type of this form control. This the string "textarea".

value of type DOMString
Represents the current contents of the corresponding form control, in an interactive user agent. Changing this attribute changes the contents of the form control, but does not change the contents of the element. If the entirety of the data can not fit into a single DOMString, the implementation may truncate the data.

Methods
blur
Removes keyboard focus from this element.

No Parameters
No Return Value
No Exceptions

focus
Gives keyboard focus to this element.

No Parameters
No Return Value
No Exceptions

select
Select the contents of the TEXTAREA.

No Parameters
No Return Value
No Exceptions

Interface HTMLButtonElement

Push button. See the BUTTON element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLButtonElement : HTMLElement {
  readonly attribute HTMLFormElement  form;
           attribute DOMString        accessKey;
           attribute boolean          disabled;
           attribute DOMString        name;
           attribute long             tabIndex;
  readonly attribute DOMString        type;
           attribute DOMString        value;
};

Attributes
accessKey of type DOMString
A single character access key to give access to the form control. See the accesskey attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

disabled of type boolean
The control is unavailable in this context. See the disabled attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

form of type HTMLFormElement, readonly
Returns the FORM element containing this control. Returns null if this control is not within the context of a form.

name of type DOMString
Form control or object name when submitted with a form. See the name attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

tabIndex of type long
Index that represents the element's position in the tabbing order. See the tabindex attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

type of type DOMString, readonly
The type of button. See the type attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

value of type DOMString
The current form control value. See the value attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLLabelElement

Form field label text. See the LABEL element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLLabelElement : HTMLElement {
  readonly attribute HTMLFormElement  form;
           attribute DOMString        accessKey;
           attribute DOMString        htmlFor;
};

Attributes
accessKey of type DOMString
A single character access key to give access to the form control. See the accesskey attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

form of type HTMLFormElement, readonly
Returns the FORM element containing this control. Returns null if this control is not within the context of a form.

htmlFor of type DOMString
This attribute links this label with another form control by id attribute. See the for attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLFieldSetElement

Organizes form controls into logical groups. See the FIELDSET element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLFieldSetElement : HTMLElement {
  readonly attribute HTMLFormElement  form;
};

Attributes
form of type HTMLFormElement, readonly
Returns the FORM element containing this control. Returns null if this control is not within the context of a form.

Interface HTMLLegendElement

Provides a caption for a FIELDSET grouping. See the LEGEND element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLLegendElement : HTMLElement {
  readonly attribute HTMLFormElement  form;
           attribute DOMString        accessKey;
           attribute DOMString        align;
};

Attributes
accessKey of type DOMString
A single character access key to give access to the form control. See the accesskey attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

align of type DOMString
Text alignment relative to FIELDSET. See the align attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

form of type HTMLFormElement, readonly
Returns the FORM element containing this control. Returns null if this control is not within the context of a form.

Interface HTMLUListElement

Unordered list. See the UL element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLUListElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute boolean          compact;
           attribute DOMString        type;
};

Attributes
compact of type boolean
Reduce spacing between list items. See the compact attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

type of type DOMString
Bullet style. See the type attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLOListElement

Ordered list. See the OL element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLOListElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute boolean          compact;
           attribute long             start;
           attribute DOMString        type;
};

Attributes
compact of type boolean
Reduce spacing between list items. See the compact attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

start of type long
Starting sequence number. See the start attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

type of type DOMString
Numbering style. See the type attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLDListElement

Definition list. See the DL element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLDListElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute boolean          compact;
};

Attributes
compact of type boolean
Reduce spacing between list items. See the compact attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLDirectoryElement

Directory list. See the DIR element definition in HTML 4.0. This element is deprecated in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLDirectoryElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute boolean          compact;
};

Attributes
compact of type boolean
Reduce spacing between list items. See the compact attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLMenuElement

Menu list. See the MENU element definition in HTML 4.0. This element is deprecated in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLMenuElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute boolean          compact;
};

Attributes
compact of type boolean
Reduce spacing between list items. See the compact attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLLIElement

List item. See the LI element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLLIElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        type;
           attribute long             value;
};

Attributes
type of type DOMString
List item bullet style. See the type attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

value of type long
Reset sequence number when used in OL. See the value attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLDivElement

Generic block container. See the DIV element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLDivElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        align;
};

Attributes
align of type DOMString
Horizontal text alignment. See the align attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLParagraphElement

Paragraphs. See the P element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLParagraphElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        align;
};

Attributes
align of type DOMString
Horizontal text alignment. See the align attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLHeadingElement

For the H1 to H6 elements. See the H1 element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLHeadingElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        align;
};

Attributes
align of type DOMString
Horizontal text alignment. See the align attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLQuoteElement

For the Q and BLOCKQUOTE elements. See the Q element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLQuoteElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        cite;
};

Attributes
cite of type DOMString
A URI designating a source document or message. See the cite attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLPreElement

Preformatted text. See the PRE element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLPreElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute long             width;
};

Attributes
width of type long
Fixed width for content. See the width attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLBRElement

Force a line break. See the BR element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLBRElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        clear;
};

Attributes
clear of type DOMString
Control flow of text around floats. See the clear attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLBaseFontElement

Base font. See the BASEFONT element definition in HTML 4.0. This element is deprecated in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLBaseFontElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        color;
           attribute DOMString        face;
           attribute DOMString        size;
};

Attributes
color of type DOMString
Font color. See the color attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

face of type DOMString
Font face identifier. See the face attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

size of type DOMString
Font size. See the size attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLFontElement

Local change to font. See the FONT element definition in HTML 4.0. This element is deprecated in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLFontElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        color;
           attribute DOMString        face;
           attribute DOMString        size;
};

Attributes
color of type DOMString
Font color. See the color attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

face of type DOMString
Font face identifier. See the face attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

size of type DOMString
Font size. See the size attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLHRElement

Create a horizontal rule. See the HR element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLHRElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        align;
           attribute boolean          noShade;
           attribute DOMString        size;
           attribute DOMString        width;
};

Attributes
align of type DOMString
Align the rule on the page. See the align attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

noShade of type boolean
Indicates to the user agent that there should be no shading in the rendering of this element. See the noshade attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

size of type DOMString
The height of the rule. See the size attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

width of type DOMString
The width of the rule. See the width attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLModElement

Notice of modification to part of a document. See the INS and DEL element definitions in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLModElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        cite;
           attribute DOMString        dateTime;
};

Attributes
cite of type DOMString
A URI designating a document that describes the reason for the change. See the cite attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

dateTime of type DOMString
The date and time of the change. See the datetime attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLAnchorElement

The anchor element. See the A element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLAnchorElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        accessKey;
           attribute DOMString        charset;
           attribute DOMString        coords;
           attribute DOMString        href;
           attribute DOMString        hreflang;
           attribute DOMString        name;
           attribute DOMString        rel;
           attribute DOMString        rev;
           attribute DOMString        shape;
           attribute long             tabIndex;
           attribute DOMString        target;
           attribute DOMString        type;
  void               blur();
  void               focus();
};

Attributes
accessKey of type DOMString
A single character access key to give access to the form control. See the accesskey attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

charset of type DOMString
The character encoding of the linked resource. See the charset attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

coords of type DOMString
Comma-separated list of lengths, defining an active region geometry. See also shape for the shape of the region. See the coords attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

href of type DOMString
The URI of the linked resource. See the href attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

hreflang of type DOMString
Language code of the linked resource. See the hreflang attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

name of type DOMString
Anchor name. See the name attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

rel of type DOMString
Forward link type. See the rel attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

rev of type DOMString
Reverse link type. See the rev attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

shape of type DOMString
The shape of the active area. The coordinates are given by coords. See the shape attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

tabIndex of type long
Index that represents the element's position in the tabbing order. See the tabindex attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

target of type DOMString
Frame to render the resource in. See the target attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

type of type DOMString
Advisory content type. See the type attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

Methods
blur
Removes keyboard focus from this element.

No Parameters
No Return Value
No Exceptions

focus
Gives keyboard focus to this element.

No Parameters
No Return Value
No Exceptions

Interface HTMLImageElement

Embedded image. See the IMG element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLImageElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        lowSrc;
           attribute DOMString        name;
           attribute DOMString        align;
           attribute DOMString        alt;
           attribute DOMString        border;
           attribute DOMString        height;
           attribute DOMString        hspace;
           attribute boolean          isMap;
           attribute DOMString        longDesc;
           attribute DOMString        src;
           attribute DOMString        useMap;
           attribute DOMString        vspace;
           attribute DOMString        width;
};

Attributes
align of type DOMString
Aligns this object (vertically or horizontally) with respect to its surrounding text. See the align attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

alt of type DOMString
Alternate text for user agents not rendering the normal content of this element. See the alt attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

border of type DOMString
Width of border around image. See the border attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

height of type DOMString
Override height. See the height attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

hspace of type DOMString
Horizontal space to the left and right of this image. See the hspace attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

isMap of type boolean
Use server-side image map. See the ismap attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

longDesc of type DOMString
URI designating a long description of this image or frame. See the longdesc attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

lowSrc of type DOMString
URI designating the source of this image, for low-resolution output.

name of type DOMString
The name of the element (for backwards compatibility).

src of type DOMString
URI designating the source of this image. See the src attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

useMap of type DOMString
Use client-side image map. See the usemap attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

vspace of type DOMString
Vertical space above and below this image. See the vspace attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

width of type DOMString
Override width. See the width attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLObjectElement

Generic embedded object. Note. In principle, all properties on the object element are read-write but in some environments some properties may be read-only once the underlying object is instantiated. See the OBJECT element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLObjectElement : HTMLElement {
  readonly attribute HTMLFormElement  form;
           attribute DOMString        code;
           attribute DOMString        align;
           attribute DOMString        archive;
           attribute DOMString        border;
           attribute DOMString        codeBase;
           attribute DOMString        codeType;
           attribute DOMString        data;
           attribute boolean          declare;
           attribute DOMString        height;
           attribute DOMString        hspace;
           attribute DOMString        name;
           attribute DOMString        standby;
           attribute long             tabIndex;
           attribute DOMString        type;
           attribute DOMString        useMap;
           attribute DOMString        vspace;
           attribute DOMString        width;
};

Attributes
align of type DOMString
Aligns this object (vertically or horizontally) with respect to its surrounding text. See the align attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

archive of type DOMString
Space-separated list of archives. See the archive attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

border of type DOMString
Width of border around the object. See the border attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

code of type DOMString
Applet class file. See the code attribute for HTMLAppletElement.

codeBase of type DOMString
Base URI for classid, data, and archive attributes. See the codebase attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

codeType of type DOMString
Content type for data downloaded via classid attribute. See the codetype attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

data of type DOMString
A URI specifying the location of the object's data. See the data attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

declare of type boolean
Declare (for future reference), but do not instantiate, this object. See the declare attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

form of type HTMLFormElement, readonly
Returns the FORM element containing this control. Returns null if this control is not within the context of a form.

height of type DOMString
Override height. See the height attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

hspace of type DOMString
Horizontal space to the left and right of this image, applet, or object. See the hspace attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

name of type DOMString
Form control or object name when submitted with a form. See the name attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

standby of type DOMString
Message to render while loading the object. See the standby attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

tabIndex of type long
Index that represents the element's position in the tabbing order. See the tabindex attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

type of type DOMString
Content type for data downloaded via data attribute. See the type attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

useMap of type DOMString
Use client-side image map. See the usemap attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

vspace of type DOMString
Vertical space above and below this image, applet, or object. See the vspace attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

width of type DOMString
Override width. See the width attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLParamElement

Parameters fed to the OBJECT element. See the PARAM element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLParamElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        name;
           attribute DOMString        type;
           attribute DOMString        value;
           attribute DOMString        valueType;
};

Attributes
name of type DOMString
The name of a run-time parameter. See the name attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

type of type DOMString
Content type for the value attribute when valuetype has the value "ref". See the type attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

value of type DOMString
The value of a run-time parameter. See the value attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

valueType of type DOMString
Information about the meaning of the value attribute value. See the valuetype attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLAppletElement

An embedded Java applet. See the APPLET element definition in HTML 4.0. This element is deprecated in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLAppletElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        align;
           attribute DOMString        alt;
           attribute DOMString        archive;
           attribute DOMString        code;
           attribute DOMString        codeBase;
           attribute DOMString        height;
           attribute DOMString        hspace;
           attribute DOMString        name;
           attribute DOMString        object;
           attribute DOMString        vspace;
           attribute DOMString        width;
};

Attributes
align of type DOMString
Aligns this object (vertically or horizontally) with respect to its surrounding text. See the align attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

alt of type DOMString
Alternate text for user agents not rendering the normal content of this element. See the alt attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

archive of type DOMString
Comma-separated archive list. See the archive attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

code of type DOMString
Applet class file. See the code attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

codeBase of type DOMString
Optional base URI for applet. See the codebase attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

height of type DOMString
Override height. See the height attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

hspace of type DOMString
Horizontal space to the left and right of this image, applet, or object. See the hspace attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

name of type DOMString
The name of the applet. See the name attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

object of type DOMString
Serialized applet file. See the object attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

vspace of type DOMString
Vertical space above and below this image, applet, or object. See the vspace attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

width of type DOMString
Override width. See the width attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLMapElement

Client-side image map. See the MAP element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLMapElement : HTMLElement {
  readonly attribute HTMLCollection   areas;
           attribute DOMString        name;
};

Attributes
areas of type HTMLCollection, readonly
The list of areas defined for the image map.

name of type DOMString
Names the map (for use with usemap). See the name attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLAreaElement

Client-side image map area definition. See the AREA element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLAreaElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        accessKey;
           attribute DOMString        alt;
           attribute DOMString        coords;
           attribute DOMString        href;
           attribute boolean          noHref;
           attribute DOMString        shape;
           attribute long             tabIndex;
           attribute DOMString        target;
};

Attributes
accessKey of type DOMString
A single character access key to give access to the form control. See the accesskey attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

alt of type DOMString
Alternate text for user agents not rendering the normal content of this element. See the alt attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

coords of type DOMString
Comma-separated list of lengths, defining an active region geometry. See also shape for the shape of the region. See the coords attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

href of type DOMString
The URI of the linked resource. See the href attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

noHref of type boolean
Specifies that this area is inactive, i.e., has no associated action. See the nohref attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

shape of type DOMString
The shape of the active area. The coordinates are given by coords. See the shape attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

tabIndex of type long
Index that represents the element's position in the tabbing order. See the tabindex attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

target of type DOMString
Frame to render the resource in. See the target attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLScriptElement

Script statements. See the SCRIPT element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLScriptElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        text;
           attribute DOMString        htmlFor;
           attribute DOMString        event;
           attribute DOMString        charset;
           attribute boolean          defer;
           attribute DOMString        src;
           attribute DOMString        type;
};

Attributes
charset of type DOMString
The character encoding of the linked resource. See the charset attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

defer of type boolean
Indicates that the user agent can defer processing of the script. See the defer attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

event of type DOMString
Reserved for future use.

htmlFor of type DOMString
Reserved for future use.

src of type DOMString
URI designating an external script. See the src attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

text of type DOMString
The script content of the element.

type of type DOMString
The content type of the script language. See the type attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLTableElement

The create* and delete* methods on the table allow authors to construct and modify tables. HTML 4.0 specifies that only one of each of the CAPTION, THEAD, and TFOOT elements may exist in a table. Therefore, if one exists, and the createTHead() or createTFoot() method is called, the method returns the existing THead or TFoot element. See the TABLE element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLTableElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute HTMLTableCaptionElement  caption;
           attribute HTMLTableSectionElement  tHead;
           attribute HTMLTableSectionElement  tFoot;
  readonly attribute HTMLCollection   rows;
  readonly attribute HTMLCollection   tBodies;
           attribute DOMString        align;
           attribute DOMString        bgColor;
           attribute DOMString        border;
           attribute DOMString        cellPadding;
           attribute DOMString        cellSpacing;
           attribute DOMString        frame;
           attribute DOMString        rules;
           attribute DOMString        summary;
           attribute DOMString        width;
  HTMLElement        createTHead();
  void               deleteTHead();
  HTMLElement        createTFoot();
  void               deleteTFoot();
  HTMLElement        createCaption();
  void               deleteCaption();
  HTMLElement        insertRow(in long index)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  void               deleteRow(in long index)
                                        raises(DOMException);
};

Attributes
align of type DOMString
Specifies the table's position with respect to the rest of the document. See the align attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

bgColor of type DOMString
Cell background color. See the bgcolor attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

border of type DOMString
The width of the border around the table. See the border attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

caption of type HTMLTableCaptionElement
Returns the table's CAPTION, or void if none exists.

cellPadding of type DOMString
Specifies the horizontal and vertical space between cell content and cell borders. See the cellpadding attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

cellSpacing of type DOMString
Specifies the horizontal and vertical separation between cells. See the cellspacing attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

frame of type DOMString
Specifies which external table borders to render. See the frame attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

rows of type HTMLCollection, readonly
Returns a collection of all the rows in the table, including all in THEAD, TFOOT, all TBODY elements.

rules of type DOMString
Specifies which internal table borders to render. See the rules attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

summary of type DOMString
Description about the purpose or structure of a table. See the summary attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

tBodies of type HTMLCollection, readonly
Returns a collection of the defined table bodies.

tFoot of type HTMLTableSectionElement
Returns the table's TFOOT, or null if none exists.

tHead of type HTMLTableSectionElement
Returns the table's THEAD, or null if none exists.

width of type DOMString
Specifies the desired table width. See the width attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

Methods
createCaption
Create a new table caption object or return an existing one.
Return Value

HTMLElement

A CAPTION element.

No Parameters
No Exceptions

createTFoot
Create a table footer row or return an existing one.
Return Value

HTMLElement

A footer element (TFOOT).

No Parameters
No Exceptions

createTHead
Create a table header row or return an existing one.
Return Value

HTMLElement

A new table header element (THEAD).

No Parameters
No Exceptions

deleteCaption
Delete the table caption, if one exists.

No Parameters
No Return Value
No Exceptions

deleteRow
Delete a table row.
Parameters
index of type long
The index of the row to be deleted. This index starts from 0 and is relative to all the rows contained inside the table, regardless of section parentage.

Exceptions

DOMException

INDEX_SIZE_ERR: Raised if the specified index is greater than or equal to the number of rows or if the index is negative.

No Return Value

deleteTFoot
Delete the footer from the table, if one exists.

No Parameters
No Return Value
No Exceptions

deleteTHead
Delete the header from the table, if one exists.

No Parameters
No Return Value
No Exceptions

insertRow
Insert a new empty row in the table. The new row is inserted immediately before and in the same section as the current indexth row in the table. If index is equal to the number of rows, the new row is appended. In addition, when the table is empty the row is inserted into a TBODY which is created and inserted into the table. Note. A table row cannot be empty according to HTML 4.0 Recommendation.
Parameters
index of type long
The row number where to insert a new row. This index starts from 0 and is relative to all the rows contained inside the table, regardless of section parentage.

Return Value

HTMLElement

The newly created row.

Exceptions

DOMException

INDEX_SIZE_ERR: Raised if the specified index is greater than the number of rows or if the index is negative.

Interface HTMLTableCaptionElement

Table caption See the CAPTION element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLTableCaptionElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        align;
};

Attributes
align of type DOMString
Caption alignment with respect to the table. See the align attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLTableColElement

Regroups the COL and COLGROUP elements. See the COL element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLTableColElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        align;
           attribute DOMString        ch;
           attribute DOMString        chOff;
           attribute long             span;
           attribute DOMString        vAlign;
           attribute DOMString        width;
};

Attributes
align of type DOMString
Horizontal alignment of cell data in column. See the align attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

ch of type DOMString
Alignment character for cells in a column. See the char attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

chOff of type DOMString
Offset of alignment character. See the charoff attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

span of type long
Indicates the number of columns in a group or affected by a grouping. See the span attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

vAlign of type DOMString
Vertical alignment of cell data in column. See the valign attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

width of type DOMString
Default column width. See the width attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLTableSectionElement

The THEAD, TFOOT, and TBODY elements.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLTableSectionElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        align;
           attribute DOMString        ch;
           attribute DOMString        chOff;
           attribute DOMString        vAlign;
  readonly attribute HTMLCollection   rows;
  HTMLElement        insertRow(in long index)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  void               deleteRow(in long index)
                                        raises(DOMException);
};

Attributes
align of type DOMString
Horizontal alignment of data in cells. See the align attribute for HTMLTheadElement for details.

ch of type DOMString
Alignment character for cells in a column. See the char attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

chOff of type DOMString
Offset of alignment character. See the charoff attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

rows of type HTMLCollection, readonly
The collection of rows in this table section.

vAlign of type DOMString
Vertical alignment of data in cells. See the valign attribute for HTMLTheadElement for details.

Methods
deleteRow
Delete a row from this section.
Parameters
index of type long
The index of the row to be deleted. This index starts from 0 and is relative only to the rows contained inside this section, not all the rows in the table.

Exceptions

DOMException

INDEX_SIZE_ERR: Raised if the specified index is greater than or equal to the number of rows or if the index is negative.

No Return Value

insertRow
Insert a row into this section. The new row is inserted immediately before the current indexth row in this section. If index is equal to the number of rows in this section, the new row is appended.
Parameters
index of type long
The row number where to insert a new row. This index starts from 0 and is relative only to the rows contained inside this section, not all the rows in the table.

Return Value

HTMLElement

The newly created row.

Exceptions

DOMException

INDEX_SIZE_ERR: Raised if the specified index is greater than the number of rows or if the index is negative.

Interface HTMLTableRowElement

A row in a table. See the TR element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLTableRowElement : HTMLElement {
  readonly attribute long             rowIndex;
  readonly attribute long             sectionRowIndex;
  readonly attribute HTMLCollection   cells;
           attribute DOMString        align;
           attribute DOMString        bgColor;
           attribute DOMString        ch;
           attribute DOMString        chOff;
           attribute DOMString        vAlign;
  HTMLElement        insertCell(in long index)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  void               deleteCell(in long index)
                                        raises(DOMException);
};

Attributes
align of type DOMString
Horizontal alignment of data within cells of this row. See the align attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

bgColor of type DOMString
Background color for rows. See the bgcolor attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

cells of type HTMLCollection, readonly
The collection of cells in this row.

ch of type DOMString
Alignment character for cells in a column. See the char attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

chOff of type DOMString
Offset of alignment character. See the charoff attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

rowIndex of type long, readonly
The index of this row, relative to the entire table, starting from 0. This is in document tree order and not display order. The rowIndex does not take into account sections (THEAD, TFOOT, or TBODY) within the table.

sectionRowIndex of type long, readonly
The index of this row, relative to the current section (THEAD, TFOOT, or TBODY), starting from 0.

vAlign of type DOMString
Vertical alignment of data within cells of this row. See the valign attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

Methods
deleteCell
Delete a cell from the current row.
Parameters
index of type long
The index of the cell to delete, starting from 0.

Exceptions

DOMException

INDEX_SIZE_ERR: Raised if the specified index is greater than or equal to the number of cells or if the index is negative.

No Return Value

insertCell
Insert an empty TD cell into this row. If index is equal to the number of cells, the new cell is appended.
Parameters
index of type long
The place to insert the cell, starting from 0.

Return Value

HTMLElement

The newly created cell.

Exceptions

DOMException

INDEX_SIZE_ERR: Raised if the specified index is greater than the number of cells or if the index is negative.

Interface HTMLTableCellElement

The object used to represent the TH and TD elements. See the TD element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLTableCellElement : HTMLElement {
  readonly attribute long             cellIndex;
           attribute DOMString        abbr;
           attribute DOMString        align;
           attribute DOMString        axis;
           attribute DOMString        bgColor;
           attribute DOMString        ch;
           attribute DOMString        chOff;
           attribute long             colSpan;
           attribute DOMString        headers;
           attribute DOMString        height;
           attribute boolean          noWrap;
           attribute long             rowSpan;
           attribute DOMString        scope;
           attribute DOMString        vAlign;
           attribute DOMString        width;
};

Attributes
abbr of type DOMString
Abbreviation for header cells. See the abbr attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

align of type DOMString
Horizontal alignment of data in cell. See the align attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

axis of type DOMString
Names group of related headers. See the axis attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

bgColor of type DOMString
Cell background color. See the bgcolor attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

cellIndex of type long, readonly
The index of this cell in the row, starting from 0. This index is in document tree order and not display order.

ch of type DOMString
Alignment character for cells in a column. See the char attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

chOff of type DOMString
Offset of alignment character. See the charoff attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

colSpan of type long
Number of columns spanned by cell. See the colspan attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

headers of type DOMString
List of id attribute values for header cells. See the headers attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

height of type DOMString
Cell height. See the height attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

noWrap of type boolean
Suppress word wrapping. See the nowrap attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

rowSpan of type long
Number of rows spanned by cell. See the rowspan attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

scope of type DOMString
Scope covered by header cells. See the scope attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

vAlign of type DOMString
Vertical alignment of data in cell. See the valign attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

width of type DOMString
Cell width. See the width attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLFrameSetElement

Create a grid of frames. See the FRAMESET element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLFrameSetElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        cols;
           attribute DOMString        rows;
};

Attributes
cols of type DOMString
The number of columns of frames in the frameset. See the cols attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

rows of type DOMString
The number of rows of frames in the frameset. See the rows attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLFrameElement

Create a frame. See the FRAME element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLFrameElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        frameBorder;
           attribute DOMString        longDesc;
           attribute DOMString        marginHeight;
           attribute DOMString        marginWidth;
           attribute DOMString        name;
           attribute boolean          noResize;
           attribute DOMString        scrolling;
           attribute DOMString        src;
};

Attributes
frameBorder of type DOMString
Request frame borders. See the frameborder attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

longDesc of type DOMString
URI designating a long description of this image or frame. See the longdesc attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

marginHeight of type DOMString
Frame margin height, in pixels. See the marginheight attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

marginWidth of type DOMString
Frame margin width, in pixels. See the marginwidth attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

name of type DOMString
The frame name (object of the target attribute). See the name attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

noResize of type boolean
When true, forbid user from resizing frame. See the noresize attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

scrolling of type DOMString
Specify whether or not the frame should have scrollbars. See the scrolling attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

src of type DOMString
A URI designating the initial frame contents. See the src attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

Interface HTMLIFrameElement

Inline subwindows. See the IFRAME element definition in HTML 4.0.


IDL Definition
interface HTMLIFrameElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString        align;
           attribute DOMString        frameBorder;
           attribute DOMString        height;
           attribute DOMString        longDesc;
           attribute DOMString        marginHeight;
           attribute DOMString        marginWidth;
           attribute DOMString        name;
           attribute DOMString        scrolling;
           attribute DOMString        src;
           attribute DOMString        width;
};

Attributes
align of type DOMString
Aligns this object (vertically or horizontally) with respect to its surrounding text. See the align attribute definition in HTML 4.0. This attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.0.

frameBorder of type DOMString
Request frame borders. See the frameborder attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

height of type DOMString
Frame height. See the height attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

longDesc of type DOMString
URI designating a long description of this image or frame. See the longdesc attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

marginHeight of type DOMString
Frame margin height, in pixels. See the marginheight attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

marginWidth of type DOMString
Frame margin width, in pixels. See the marginwidth attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

name of type DOMString
The frame name (object of the target attribute). See the name attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

scrolling of type DOMString
Specify whether or not the frame should have scrollbars. See the scrolling attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

src of type DOMString
A URI designating the initial frame contents. See the src attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

width of type DOMString
Frame width. See the width attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

29 September, 2000

Appendix A: Changes

Editors
Philippe Le Hégaret, W3C

This appendix contains the changes from the 1 October 1998 specification.

A.1: Changes in the "What is the Document Object Model?"

Introduction
The link to the CORBA 2.2 specification was broken.
Also, the first item of the list about "DOM Interfaces and DOM Implementations" had text about "read-only functions" which was changed to "read-only attributes".
What the Document Object Model is
The following sentence was missing:
Each document contains zero or one doctype nodes, one root element node, and zero or more comments or processing instructions; the root element serves as the root of the element tree for the document.

The following statement has been modified:
One important property of DOM structure models is structural isomorphism: if any two Document Object Model implementations are used to create a representation of the same document, they will create the same structure model, with precisely the same objects and relationships.

It now reads:
One important property of DOM structure models is structural isomorphism: if any two Document Object Model implementations are used to create a representation of the same document, they will create the same structure model, in accordance with the XML Information Set [Infoset].

with the following note:

Note: There may be some variations depending on the parser being used to build the DOM. For instance, the DOM may not contain whitespaces in element content if the parser discards them.


The compliance paragraph has been moved into a specific section (see Compliance).
What the Document Object Model is not
The following statement has been modified:
The Document Object Model does not define "the true inner semantics" of XML or HTML. The semantics of those languages are defined by W3C Recommendations for these languages. The DOM is a programming model designed to respect these semantics. The DOM does not have any ramifications for the way you write XML and HTML documents; any document that can be written in these languages can be represented in the DOM.

It now reads:
The Document Object Model does not define what information in a document is relevant or how information in a document is structured. For XML, this is specified by the W3C XML Information Set [Infoset]. The DOM is simply an API to this information set.

A.2: Changes in the Document Object Model Core

Section 1.1.5. The DOMString type
The DOMString type was defined as "a sequence of 16-bit quantities". Instead, it is now defined as "sequence of 16-bit units".
Then, the description contained the following sentences:
Please note that for both HTML and XML, the document character set (and therefore the notation of numeric character references) is based on UCS-4. A single numeric character reference in a source document may therefore in some cases correspond to two array positions in a DOMString (a high surrogate and a low surrogate).

This now reads:
Please note that for both HTML and XML, the document character set (and therefore the notation of numeric character references) is based on UCS [ISO-10646]. A single numeric character reference in a source document may therefore in some cases correspond to two 16-bit units in a DOMString (a high surrogate and a low surrogate).
Section 1.1.6. String comparisons in the DOM
The title of this section, which was Case sensitivity in the DOM, was changed to be more accurate.
The first paragraph ended with the following:
For the purposes of the DOM, string matching takes place on a character code by character code basis, on the 16 bit value of a DOMString. As such, the DOM assumes that any normalizations will take place in the processor, before the DOM structures are built.

This sentence now reads:
For the purposes of the DOM, string matching is performed purely by binary comparison of the 16-bit units of the DOMString. In addition, the DOM assumes that any normalizations take place in the processor, before the DOM structures are built.

With the following note:

Note: Besides case folding, there are additional normalizations that can be applied to text. The W3C I18N Working Group is in the process of defining exactly which normalizations are necessary, and where they should be applied. The W3C I18N Working Group expects to require early normalization, which means that data read into the DOM is assumed to already be normalized. The DOM and applications built on top of it in this case only have to assure that text remains normalized when being changed. For further details, please see [Charmod].

Section 1.2 Interface Attr
The fact that setting the value attribute raises a NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR DOMException when the node is readonly was added.
A sentence has been added at the end of the first paragraph of the description of the value attribute:
See also the method getAttribute on the Element interface.

also at the end of the second paragraph:
I.e. any characters that an XML processor would recognize as markup are instead treated as literal text. See also the method setAttribute on the Element interface.

And on the specified attribute:
If the attribute is not associated to any element (i.e. because it was just created or was obtained from some removal or cloning operation) specified is true.
Section 1.2 Interface CharacterData
The following paragraph has been added:
As explained in the DOMString interface, text strings in the DOM are represented in UTF-16, i.e. as a sequence of 16-bit units. In the following, the term 16-bit units is used whenever necessary to indicate that indexing on CharacterData is done in 16-bit units.

The description of the length attribute read:
The number of characters that are available through data and the substringData method below.

It now reads:
The number of 16-bit units that are available through data and the substringData method below.

The description of the count parameter of the substringData method read:
The number of characters to extract.

It now reads:
The number of 16-bit units to extract.

Then the description of the return value read:
The specified substring. If the sum of offset and count exceeds the length, then all characters to the end of the data are returned.

It now reads:
The specified substring. If the sum of offset and count exceeds the length, then all 16-bit units to the end of the data are returned.

The exception INDEX_SIZE_ERR was said to be:
Raised if the specified offset is negative or greater than the number of characters in data, or if the specified count is negative.

Instead this now reads:
Raised if the specified offset is negative or greater than the number of 16-bit units in data, or if the specified count is negative.

The description of the insertData method read:
Insert a string at the specified character offset.

Instead it now reads:
Insert a string at the specified 16-bit unit offset.

Then the description of the offset parameter read:
The character offset at which to insert.

when it now reads:
The 16-bit unit offset at which to insert.

The exception INDEX_SIZE_ERR was said to be:
Raised if the specified offset is negative or greater than the number of characters in data, or if the specified count is negative.

Instead this now reads:
Raised if the specified offset is negative or greater than the number of 16-bit units in data, or if the specified count is negative.

The description of the deleteData method read:
Remove a range of characters from the node.

Instead it now reads:
Remove a range of 16-bit units from the node.

Then the description of the count parameter read:
The number of characters to delete. If the sum of offset and count exceeds length then all characters from offset to the end of the data are deleted.

when it now reads:
The number of 16-bit units to delete. If the sum of offset and count exceeds length then all 16-bit units from offset to the end of the data are deleted.

The description of the replaceData method read:
Replace the characters starting at the specified character offset with the specified string.

instead it now reads:
Replace the characters starting at the specified 16-bit unit offset with the specified string.

Then the description of the count parameter read:
The number of characters to replace. If the sum of offset and count exceeds length, then all characters to the end of the data are replaced

when it now reads:
The number of 16-bit units to replace. If the sum of offset and count exceeds length, then all 16-bit units to the end of the data are replaced

The exception INDEX_SIZE_ERR was said to be:
Raised if the specified offset is negative or greater than the number of characters in data, or if the specified count is negative.

Instead this now reads:
Raised if the specified offset is negative or greater than the number of 16-bit units in data, or if the specified count is negative.
Section 1.2 Interface DOMImplementation

The definition of the feature parameter read:
The package name of the feature to test. In Level 1, the legal values are "HTML" and "XML" (case-insensitive).

This now reads:
The name of the feature to test (case-insensitive). The values used by DOM features are defined throughout this specification and listed i n the Compliance section. The name must be an XML name. To avoid possible conflicts, as a convention, names referring to features defined outside the DOM specification should be made unique by reversing the name of the Internet domain name of the person (or the organization that the person belongs to) who defines the feature, component by component, and using this as a prefix. For instance, the W3C SYMM Working Group defines the feature "org.w3c.dom.smil".

The definition of the version parameter read:
This is the version number of the package name to test. In Level 1, this is the string "1.0".

This now reads:
This is the version number of the feature to test. In Level 1, this is the string "1.0".
Section 1.2 Interface Document
The description of the createElement method was missing the following piece:
In addition, if there are known attributes with default values, Attr nodes representing them are automatically created and attached to the element.

The description of the createEntityReference method was missing the following piece:
In addition, if the referenced entity is known, the child list of the EntityReference node is made the same as that of the corresponding Entity node.

The description of the doctype attribute was missing the following piece:
The DOM Level 1 does not support editing the Document Type Declaration, therefore docType cannot be altered in any way, including through the use of methods, such as insertNode or removeNode, which are inherited from the Node interface.

The description of the createAttribute method was said to be:
Creates an Attr of the given name. Note that the Attr instance can then be set on an Element using the setAttribute method.

it is now:
Creates an Attr of the given name. Note that the Attr instance can then be set on an Element using the setAttributeNode method.

The description of the return value was missing:
The value of the attribute is the emtpy string.

The exception INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR for createElement, createAttribute, createEntityReference and createProcessingInstruction methods was said to be:
Raised if the specified name contains an invalid character.

Instead this now reads:
Raised if the specified name contains an illegal character.
Section 1.2 Interface DocumentType
The description of the entities attribute has been modified:
A NamedNodeMap containing the general entities, both external and internal, declared in the DTD. Duplicates are discarded.

It now reads:
A NamedNodeMap containing the general entities, both external and internal, declared in the DTD. Parameter entities are not contained. Duplicates are discarded.

The example has been modified as follows:
<!DOCTYPE ex SYSTEM "ex.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY foo "foo">
  <!ENTITY bar "bar">
  <!ENTITY % baz "baz">
]>
<ex/>
the interface provides access to foo and bar but not baz. [ ...]

It is now:
<!DOCTYPE ex SYSTEM "ex.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY foo "foo">
  <!ENTITY bar "bar">
  <!ENTITY bar "bar2">
  <!ENTITY % baz "baz">
]>
<ex/>
the interface provides access to foo and the first declaration of bar but not the second declaration of bar or baz. [...]
Section 1.2 Interface Element
The following example has been removed:
By far the vast majority of objects (apart from text) that authors encounter when traversing a document are Element nodes. Assume the following XML document: 

<elementExample id="demo">
  <subelement1/>
  <subelement2><subsubelement/></subelement2>
</elementExample>
When represented using DOM, the top node is a Document node containing an Element node for "elementExample" which contains two child Element nodes, one for "subelement1" and one for "subelement2". "subelement1" contains no child nodes.

The following sentence has been added:
The Element interface represents an element in an HTML or XML document.

The description read:
the generic Node interface method getAttributes may be used to retrieve the set of all attributes for an element.

However, there is no getAttributes method per se, although it may exist in some language binding such as the java one. So this section now reads:
the generic Node interface attribute attributes may be used to retrieve the set of all attributes for an element.

The removeAttribute method description read:
If the removed attribute has a default value it is immediately replaced.

This now reads:
If the removed attribute is known to have a default value, an attribute immediately appears containing the default value.

The removeAttributeNode method description read:
Removes the specified attribute.

This now reads:
Removes the specified attribute. If the removed Attr has a default value it is immediately replaced.

The description of the oldAttr has been chagned according to the previous change:
The Attr node to remove from the attribute list. If the removed Attr has a default value it is immediately replaced.

This now reads:
The Attr node to remove from the attribute list.

In addition, the following note was added to the description of the normalize method:

Note: In cases where the document contains CDATASections, the normalize operation alone may not be sufficient, since XPointers do not differentiate between Text nodes and CDATASection nodes.


And the following change was made to the description of the same method:
Puts all Text nodes in the full depth of the sub-tree underneath this Element into a "normal" form where only markup (e.g., tags, comments, processing instructions, CDATA sections, and entity references) separates Text nodes, i.e., there are no adjacent Text nodes.

This now reads:
Puts all Text nodes in the full depth of the sub-tree underneath this Element, including attribute nodes, into a "normal" form where only markup (e.g., tags, comments, processing instructions, CDATA sections, and entity references) separates Text nodes, i.e., there are no adjacent Text nodes.

The exception INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR for the setAttribute method was said to be:
Raised if the specified name contains an invalid character.

Instead this now reads:
Raised if the specified name contains an illegal character.

The description for setAttributeNode was said to be:
Adds a new attribute.

Instead this now reads:
Adds a new attribute node.

The description for setAttributeNode return value was said to be:
If the newAttr attribute replaces an existing attribute with the same name, the previously existing Attr node is returned, otherwise null is returned.

Instead this now reads:
If the newAttr attribute replaces an existing attribute, the replaced Attr node is returned, otherwise null is returned.
Section 1.2 Interface DOMException
The following note has been added for the ExceptionCode group:

Note: Other numeric codes are reserved for W3C for possible future use.


The description of the INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR read:
If an invalid character is specified, such as in a name.

Instead it now reads:
If an invalid or illegal character is specified, such as in a name. See production 2 in the XML specification for the definition of a legal character, and production 5 for the definition of a legal name character.
Section 1.2 Interface NamedNodeMap
The description of the setNamedItem was missing (moved from the description of the arg parameter):
If a node with that name is already present in this map, it is replaced by the new one.

The description of the return value of the removeNamedItem method read:
The node removed from the map or null if no node with such a name exists.

But this error case is already handled by having the method to throw a NOT_FOUND_ERR DOMException. So this section now simply reads:
The node removed from the map if a node with such a name exists.

The description of the removeNamedItem method now includes the following note that was missing:
When this map contains the attributes attached to an element, if the removed attribute is known to have a default value, an attribute immediately appears containing the default value.

In addition, it was added that the removeNamedItem method raises a NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR DOMException when the NamedNodeMap is readonly.
Section 1.2 Interface Node
It was added to the description of the nodeValue attribute that setting it, when it is defined to be null, has no effect.
It was also added to the description of the parentNode attribute that Entity and Notation nodes do not have a parent.
It was also added to the description of the NodeType group:
Numeric codes up to 200 are reserved to W3C for possible future use.

The following description has been removed:
The content of the returned NodeList is "live" in the sense that, for instance, changes to the children of the node object that it was created from are immediately reflected in the nodes returned by the NodeList accessors; it is not a static snapshot of the content of the node. This is true for every NodeList, including the ones returned by the getElementsByTagName method.

The description of the NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR exception of the insertBefore method read:
Raised if this node is readonly.

It now reads:
Raised if this node is readonly or if the parent of the node being inserted is readonly.

The description of the replaceChild method was missing:
If newChild is a DocumentFragment object, oldChild is replaced by all of the DocumentFragment children, which are inserted in the same order. If the newChild is already in the tree, it is first removed.

The description of the NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR exception of the replaceChild method read:
Raised if this node is readonly.

It now reads:
Raised if this node or the parent of the new node is readonly.

The description of the cloneNode method was missing:
Note that cloning an immutable subtree results in a mutable copy, but the children of an EntityReference clone are readonly. In addition, clones of unspecified Attr nodes are specified. And, cloning Document, DocumentType, Entity, and Notation nodes is implementation dependent.

and also missing the following exceptions:
NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if this node is a of type DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, ENTITY_NODE, or NOTATION_NODE and the implementation does not support cloning this type of node.
Section 1.2 Interface NodeList
The description was missing:
NodeList objects in the DOM are live.
Section 1.2 Interface Comment
The first paragraph read:
This represents the content of a comment, i.e., all the characters between the starting '<!--' and ending '-->'.

It now reads "This interface inherits from CharacterData and represents ...".
Section 1.2 Interface Text
The first paragraph read:
The Text interface represents the textual content (termed character data in XML) of an Element or Attr.

It now reads "The Text interface inherits from CharacterData and represents ...".
The first paragraph read:
If there is markup, it is parsed into a list of elements and Text nodes that form the list of children of the element.

It has been clarified, now reads "into the information items (elements, children comments, etc.) and ...".
The last sentence of the second paragraph of the interface description read:
The normalize() method on Element merges any such adjacent Text objects into a single node for each block of text; this is recommended before employing operations that depend on a particular document structure, such as navigation with XPointers.

However, since in cases where the document contains CDATASections, the normalize operation alone may not be sufficient, since XPointers do not differentiate between Text nodes and CDATASection nodes, the last part of the sentence (after the semi-colon) was dropped.
The following sentence was added, for clarification purpose, to the description of the splitText method:
When the offset is equal to the length of this node, the new Text node has no data.

The description of the slitText method has been clarified:
Breaks this Text node into two Text at the specified offset, ...

It now reads "Breaks this node into two nodes ...".
The description offset parameter of the splitText method read:
The offset at which to split, starting from 0.

It now reads:
The 16-bit unit offset at which to split, starting from 0.

The description return value read:
The new Text node.

It now reads:
The new node, of the same type as this node.

The exception INDEX_SIZE_ERR was said to be:
Raised if the specified offset is negative or greater than the number of characters in data.

Instead this now reads:
Raised if the specified offset is negative or greater than the number of 16-bit units in data.
Section 1.3 Extended Interfaces
The following paragraph was missing:
A DOM application can use the hasFeature method of the DOMImplementation interface to determine whether they are supported or not. The feature string for all the interfaces listed in this section is "XML".
Section 1.3 Interface CDATASection
The following note was added to the description:

Note: Because no markup is recognized within a CDATASection, character numeric references cannot be used as an escape mechanism when serializing. Therefore, action needs to be taken when serializing a CDATASection with a character encoding where some of the contained characters cannot be represented. Failure to do so would not produce well-formed XML.
One potential solution in the serialization process is to end the CDATA section before the character, output the character using a character reference or entity reference, and open a new CDATA section for any further characters in the text node. Note, however, that some code conversion libraries at the time of writing do not return an error or exception when a character is missing from the encoding, making the task of ensuring that data is not corrupted on serialization more difficult.

Section 1.3. Interface Notation
The first paragraph read:
they are therefore readonly.

A link to the glossary has been added for readonly.
Section 1.3 Interface Entity
The last sentence of the last paragraph was said to be:
All the descendants of an Entity node are readonly.

Instead, it now reads:
Entity nodes and all their descendants are readonly.
Section 1.3 Interface EntityReference
The following note was added to the description:
As for Entity nodes, EntityReference nodes and all their descendants are readonly.

A.3: Changes in the Document Object Model HTML

Section 2.1 Introduction
The last sentence of the third paragraph was:
Interoperability between implementations is only guaranteed for elements and attributes that are specified in these DTDs.

This seemed to imply interoperability is not guaranteed for the HTML 4.0 strict DTD, so it was changed to:
Interoperability between implementations is only guaranteed for elements and attributes that are specified in the HTML 4.0 DTDs.
Section 2.5.1 Property Attributes
"border" was given as an example of an open-value value list in the table. It was changed to "disabled".
Section 2.5.5 Interface HTMLBlockquoteElement
This interface was an error and was removed. The Interface HTMLQuoteElement is used for both the Q and BLOCKQUOTE HTML elements.
Section 2.5.5 Interface HTMLInputElement
The description of the defaultValue attribute now reads:
value "Text", "File" or "Password", this represents the HTML value attribute of the element. The value of this attribute does not change if the contents of the corresponding form control in an interactive user agent changes. Changing this attribute, however, resets the contents of the form control. See the value attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

The description of the value attribute now reads:
When the type attribute of the element has the value "Text", "File" or "Password", this represents the current contents of the corresponding form control in an interactive user agent. Changing this attribute changes the contents of the form control, but does not change the value of the HTML value attribute of the element. When the type attribute of the element has the value "Button", "Hidden", "Submit", "Reset", "Image", "Checkbox" or "Radio", this represents the HTML value attribute of the element. See the value attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

The description of the defaultChecked attribute now reads:
When the type attribute of the element has the value "Checkbox" or "Radio", this represents the HTML checked attribute of the element. The value of this attribute does not change if the state of the corresponding form control in an interactive user agent changes. Changes to this attribute, however, resets the state of the form control. See the checked attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

The description of the checked attribute now reads:
When the type attribute of the element has the value "Checkbox" or "Radio", this represents the current state of the corresponding form control in am interactive user agent. Changes to this attribute changes the state of the form control, but does not change the value of the HTML value attribute of the element.
Section 2.5.5 Interface HTMLOptionElement
The index attribute was changed to readonly and the selected attribute to readwrite. It was also added that the index attribute starts from 0.
The description of the defaultSelected attribute was unclear, it now reads:
Represents the value of the HTML selected attribute. The value of this attribute does not change if the state of the corresponding form control in an interactive user agent changes. Changing defaultSelected, however, resets the state of the form control. See the selected attribute definition in HTML 4.0.

In addition, its description was unclear, it now reads:
Represents the current state of the corresponding form control in an interactive user agent. Changing this attribute changes the state of the form control, but does not change the value of the HTML selected attribute of the element.
Section 2.5.5 Interface HTMLSelectElement
It was added that the value of the type attribute is the string "select-multiple" when the multiple attribute is true and the string "select-one" when false.
It was also added that the index attribute starts from 0.
The description of the before parameter of the add method read:
The element to insert before, or null for the head of the list.

It was changed to:
The element to insert before, or null for the tail of the list.

Finally, it was added that an NOT_FOUND_ERR DOMException is raised when the before given to the add method is not a descendant of the SELECT element.
Section 2.5.5 Interface HTMLTableCellElement
The cellIndex attribute was changed to readonly and it was added that it starts from 0.
Section 2.5.5 Interface HTMLTableElement
The description of the index parameter of the insertRow and deleteRow methods was augmented with the following:
This index starts from 0 and is relative to all the rows contained inside the table, regardless of section parentage.

In addition, the following was added to the description of the insertRow method:
The new row is inserted immediately before and in the same section as the current indexth row in the table. If there is no such row, the row is inserted following the one before in the table. Finally, when the table is empty the row is inserted into a TBODY which is created and inserted into the table.

Finally, it was added that an INDEX_SIZE_ERR DOMException is raised when the index given to the insertRow method is greater than the number of rows, and when the index given to the deleteRow method is greater than or equal to the number of rows. In both case, the exception is also raised if the index is negative.
Section 2.5.5 Interface HTMLTableRowElement
The rowIndex, selectionRowIndex, and cells attributes were changed to readonly. And it was added that these indexes start from 0.
It was added that the index parameter of the insertCell and deleteCell methods starts from 0.
The following sentence was added to the description of the insertCell:
If index is equal to the number of cells, the new cell is appended.

In addition, it was added that an INDEX_SIZE_ERR DOMException is raised when the index given to the insertCell method is greater than the number of cells and when the index given to the deleteCell method is greater than or equal to the number of cells. In both case, the exception is also raised if the index is negative.
Section 2.5.5 Interface HTMLTableSectionElement
The description of the index parameter of the insertRow and deleteRow methods was augmented with the following:
This index starts from 0 and is relative only to the rows contained inside this section, not all the rows in the table.

In addition, it was added that an INDEX_SIZE_ERR DOMException is raised when the index given to the insertRow method is greater than the number of rows, and when the index given to the deleteRow method is greater than or equal to the number of rows. In both case, the exception is also raised if the index is negative.
Section 2.5.5 Interface HTMLTextArea
The value of the type attribute is now defined to be the string "textarea".
The description of the defaultValue attribute was unclear, it now reads:
Represents the contents of the element. The value of this attribute does not change if the contents of the corresponding form control in an interactive user agent changes. Changing this attribute, however, resets the contents of the form control.

The description of the value attribute was unclear, it now reads:
Represents the current contents of the corresponding form control in an interactive user agent. Changing this attribute changes the contents of the form control, but does not change the contents of the element.

A.4: Changes in the Appendices

Appendix D (formerly C): IDL Definition
The list of exception codes appeared twice and several pieces of information, such as the names and prefixes of the modules were missing.
We also added the following paragraph:
"Unfortunately the OMG IDL for the Document Object Model HTML is not compliant because of problems in the validator that was used to validate Level 1. The readOnly attribute on the HTMLInputElement and HTMLTextAreaElement interfaces, as well as the object attribute on the HTMLAppletElement interface, are not compliant with OMG IDL 2.2. The valueType attribute on the HTMLParamElement interface is not compliant with OMG IDL 2.3, which hadn't been released when DOM Level 1 was published."
Appendix E (formerly D): Java Language Binding
The java source files did not contain the copyright notice appropriate for people to use them in their products. A few errors in the javadoc part of them were also fixed.
References
The references were sorted by alphabetical order, severals references were added and updated.

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Appendix E: Acknowledgements

The authors of this specification, members of the DOM Working Group, deserve much credit for their hard work: Lauren Wood (SoftQuad, Inc., chair), Arnaud Le Hors (W3C, W3C staff contact), Andrew Watson (Object Management Group), Bill Smith (Sun), Chris Lovett (Microsoft), Chris Wilson (Microsoft), David Brownell (Sun), David Singer (IBM), Don Park (invited), Eric Vasilik (Microsoft), Gavin Nicol (INSO), Ian Jacobs (W3C), James Clark (invited), Jared Sorensen (Novell), Jonathan Robie (Texcel Research and Software AG), Mike Champion (ArborText and Software AG), Paul Grosso (ArborText), Peter Sharpe (SoftQuad, Inc.), Phil Karlton (Netscape), Ray Whitmer (iMall), Rich Rollman (Microsoft), Rick Gessner (Netscape), Robert Sutor (IBM), Scott Isaacs (Microsoft), Sharon Adler (INSO), Steve Byrne (JavaSoft), Tim Bray (invited), Tom Pixley (Netscape), Vidur Apparao (Netscape).

Thanks to all those who have helped to improve this specification by sending suggestions and corrections.

Thanks to Joe English, author of cost, which was used as the basis for producing DOM Level 1. Thanks also to Gavin Nicol, who wrote the scripts which run on top of cost. Arnaud Le Hors and Philippe Le Hégaret maintained the scripts.

For DOM Level 1 Second edition, we used Xerces as the basis DOM implementation and wish to thank the authors. Philippe Le Hégaret and Arnaud Le Hors wrote the Java programs which are the DOM application.

Thanks to Jan Kärrman, author of html2ps for helping so much in creating the Postscript version of the specification.

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Glossary

Editors
Robert S. Sutor, IBM Research

Several of the following term definitions have been borrowed or modified from similar definitions in other W3C or standards documents. See the links within the definitions for more information.

16-bit unit
The base unit of a DOMString. This indicates that indexing on a DOMString occurs in units of 16 bits. This must not be misunderstood to mean that a DOMString can store arbitrary 16-bit units. A DOMString is a character string encoded in UTF-16; this means that the restrictions of UTF-16 as well as the other relevant restrictions on character strings must be maintained. A single character, for example in the form of a numeric character reference, may correspond to one or two 16-bit units.
For more information, see [Unicode] and [ISO/IEC 10646].
ancestor
An ancestor node of any node A is any node above A in a tree model of a document, where "above" means "toward the root."
API
An API is an application programming interface, a set of functions or methods used to access some functionality.
child
A child is an immediate descendant node of a node.
client application
A [client] application is any software that uses the Document Object Model programming interfaces provided by the hosting implementation to accomplish useful work. Some examples of client applications are scripts within an HTML or XML document.
COM
COM is Microsoft's Component Object Model [COM], a technology for building applications from binary software components.
content model
The content model is a simple grammar governing the allowed types of the child elements and the order in which they appear. See Element Content in XML [XML].
context
A context specifies an access pattern (or path): a set of interfaces which give you a way to interact with a model. For example, imagine a model with different colored arcs connecting data nodes. A context might be a sheet of colored acetate that is placed over the model allowing you a partial view of the total information in the model.
convenience
A convenience method is an operation on an object that could be accomplished by a program consisting of more basic operations on the object. Convenience methods are usually provided to make the API easier and simpler to use or to allow specific programs to create more optimized implementations for common operations. A similar definition holds for a convenience property.
cooked model
A model for a document that represents the document after it has been manipulated in some way. For example, any combination of any of the following transformations would create a cooked model:
  1. Expansion of internal text entities.
  2. Expansion of external entities.
  3. Model augmentation with style-specified generated text.
  4. Execution of style-specified reordering.
  5. Execution of scripts.
A browser might only be able to provide access to a cooked model, while an editor might provide access to a cooked or the initial structure model (also known as the uncooked model) for a document.
CORBA
CORBA is the Common Object Request Broker Architecture from the OMG [CORBA]. This architecture is a collection of objects and libraries that allow the creation of applications containing objects that make and receive requests and responses in a distributed environment.
cursor
A cursor is an object representation of a node. It may possess information about context and the path traversed to reach the node.
data model
A data model is a collection of descriptions of data structures and their contained fields, together with the operations or functions that manipulate them.
deprecation
When new releases of specifications are released, some older features may be marked as being deprecated. This means that new work should not use the features and that although they are supported in the current release, they may not be supported or available in future releases.
descendant
A descendant node of any node A is any node below A in a tree model of a document, where "above" means "toward the root."
DOM Level 0
The term "DOM Level 0" refers to a mix (not formally specified) of HTML document functionalities offered by Netscape Navigator version 3.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer version 3.0. In some cases, attributes or methods have been included for reasons of backward compatibility with "DOM Level 0".
ECMAScript
The programming language defined by the ECMA-262 standard [ECMAScript]. As stated in the standard, the originating technology for ECMAScript was JavaScript [JavaScript]. Note that in the ECMAScript binding, the word "property" is used in the same sense as the IDL term "attribute."
element
Each document contains one or more elements, the boundaries of which are either delimited by start-tags and end-tags, or, for empty elements by an empty-element tag. Each element has a type, identified by name, and may have a set of attributes. Each attribute has a name and a value. See Logical Structures in XML [XML].
event propagation, also known as event bubbling
This is the idea that an event can affect one object and a set of related objects. Any of the potentially affected objects can block the event or substitute a different one (upward event propagation). The event is broadcast from the node at which it originates to every parent node.
equivalence
Two nodes are equivalent if they have the same node type and same node name. Also, if the nodes contain data, that must be the same. Finally, if the nodes have attributes the collection of attribute names must be the same and the attributes corresponding by name must be equivalent as nodes.
Two nodes are deeply equivalent if they are equivalent, their child node lists are equivalent are equivalent as NodeList objects, and their attributes are deeply equivalent.
Two NodeList objects are equivalent if they have the same length, and the nodes corresponding by index are deeply equivalent.
Two NamedNodeMap objects are equivalent if they have the same length, they have same collection of names, and the nodes corresponding by name in the maps are deeply equivalent.
Two DocumentType nodes are equivalent if they are equivalent as nodes, have the same names, and have equivalent entities and attributes NamedNodeMap objects.
information item
An information item is an abstract representation of some component of an XML document. See the [Infoset] for details.
hosting implementation
A [hosting] implementation is a software module that provides an implementation of the DOM interfaces so that a client application can use them. Some examples of hosting implementations are browsers, editors and document repositories.
HTML
The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a simple markup language used to create hypertext documents that are portable from one platform to another. HTML documents are SGML documents with generic semantics that are appropriate for representing information from a wide range of applications. [HTML3.2] [HTML4.0]
IDL
An Interface Definition Language (IDL) is used to define the interfaces for accessing and operating objects. Examples of IDLs are the Object Management Group's IDL [CORBA], Microsoft's IDL [MIDL], and Sun's Java IDL [JavaIDL].
implementor
Companies, organizations, and individuals that claim to support the Document Object Model as an API for their products.
inheritance
In object-oriented programming, the ability to create new classes (or interfaces) that contain all the methods and properties of another class (or interface), plus additional methods and properties. If class (or interface) D inherits from class (or interface) B, then D is said to be derived from B. B is said to be a base class (or interface) for D. Some programming languages allow for multiple inheritance, that is, inheritance from more than one class or interface.
initial structure model
Also known as the raw structure model or the uncooked model, this represents the document before it has been modified by entity expansions, generated text, style-specified reordering, or the execution of scripts. In some implementations, this might correspond to the "initial parse tree" for the document, if it ever exists. Note that a given implementation might not be able to provide access to the initial structure model for a document, though an editor probably would.
interface
An interface is a declaration of a set of methods with no information given about their implementation. In object systems that support interfaces and inheritance, interfaces can usually inherit from one another.
language binding
A programming language binding for an IDL specification is an implementation of the interfaces in the specification for the given language. For example, a Java language binding for the Document Object Model IDL specification would implement the concrete Java classes that provide the functionality exposed by the interfaces.
method
A method is an operation or function that is associated with an object and is allowed to manipulate the object's data.
model
A model is the actual data representation for the information at hand. Examples are the structural model and the style model representing the parse structure and the style information associated with a document. The model might be a tree, or a directed graph, or something else.
object model
An object model is a collection of descriptions of classes or interfaces, together with their member data, member functions, and class-static operations.
parent
A parent is an immediate ancestor node of a node.
readonly node
A readonly node is a node that is immutable. This means its list of children, its content, and its attributes, when it is an element, cannot be changed in any way. However, a readonly node can possibly be moved, when it is not itself contained in a readonly node.
root node
The root node is the unique node that is not a child of any other node. All other nodes are children or other descendents of the root node. Well-Formed XML Documents in XML [XML].
sibling
Two nodes are siblings if they have the same parent node.
string comparison
When string matching is required, it is to occur as though the comparison was between 2 sequences of code points from the Unicode 3.0 standard.
tag valid document
A document is tag valid if all begin and end tags are properly balanced and nested.
type valid document
A document is type valid if it conforms to an explicit DTD.
uncooked model
See initial structure model.
well-formed document
A document is well-formed if it is tag valid and entities are limited to single elements (i.e., single sub-trees).
XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is an extremely simple dialect of SGML. The goal is to enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML. XML has been designed for ease of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML and HTML. [XML]
XML name
See XML name in the XML specification [XML].

29 September, 2000

Appendix B: IDL Definitions

This appendix contains the complete OMG IDL for the Level 1 Document Object Model definitions. The definitions are divided into Core, HTML.

The IDL files are also available as: http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-DOM-Level-1-20000929/idl.zip

Unfortunately the OMG IDL for the Document Object Model HTML is not compliant because of problems in the validator that was used to validate Level 1. The readOnly attribute on the HTMLInputElement and HTMLTextAreaElement interfaces, as well as the object attribute on the HTMLAppletElement interface, are not compliant with OMG IDL 2.2.

B.1: Document Object Model Level 1 Core

This section contains the OMG IDL definitions for the interfaces in the Core Document Object Model specification, including the extended (XML) interfaces.

dom.idl:

// File: dom.idl

#ifndef _DOM_IDL_
#define _DOM_IDL_

#pragma prefix "w3c.org"
module dom
{

  typedef sequence<unsigned short> DOMString;

  interface NodeList;
  interface NamedNodeMap;
  interface Document;

  exception DOMException {
    unsigned short   code;
  };
  // ExceptionCode
  const unsigned short      INDEX_SIZE_ERR                 = 1;
  const unsigned short      DOMSTRING_SIZE_ERR             = 2;
  const unsigned short      HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR          = 3;
  const unsigned short      WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR             = 4;
  const unsigned short      INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR          = 5;
  const unsigned short      NO_DATA_ALLOWED_ERR            = 6;
  const unsigned short      NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR    = 7;
  const unsigned short      NOT_FOUND_ERR                  = 8;
  const unsigned short      NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR              = 9;
  const unsigned short      INUSE_ATTRIBUTE_ERR            = 10;


  interface DOMImplementation {
    boolean            hasFeature(in DOMString feature, 
                                  in DOMString version);
  };

  interface Node {

    // NodeType
    const unsigned short      ELEMENT_NODE                   = 1;
    const unsigned short      ATTRIBUTE_NODE                 = 2;
    const unsigned short      TEXT_NODE                      = 3;
    const unsigned short      CDATA_SECTION_NODE             = 4;
    const unsigned short      ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE          = 5;
    const unsigned short      ENTITY_NODE                    = 6;
    const unsigned short      PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE    = 7;
    const unsigned short      COMMENT_NODE                   = 8;
    const unsigned short      DOCUMENT_NODE                  = 9;
    const unsigned short      DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE             = 10;
    const unsigned short      DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE         = 11;
    const unsigned short      NOTATION_NODE                  = 12;

    readonly attribute DOMString        nodeName;
             attribute DOMString        nodeValue;
                                        // raises(DOMException) on setting
                                        // raises(DOMException) on retrieval

    readonly attribute unsigned short   nodeType;
    readonly attribute Node             parentNode;
    readonly attribute NodeList         childNodes;
    readonly attribute Node             firstChild;
    readonly attribute Node             lastChild;
    readonly attribute Node             previousSibling;
    readonly attribute Node             nextSibling;
    readonly attribute NamedNodeMap     attributes;
    readonly attribute Document         ownerDocument;
    Node               insertBefore(in Node newChild, 
                                    in Node refChild)
                                        raises(DOMException);
    Node               replaceChild(in Node newChild, 
                                    in Node oldChild)
                                        raises(DOMException);
    Node               removeChild(in Node oldChild)
                                        raises(DOMException);
    Node               appendChild(in Node newChild)
                                        raises(DOMException);
    boolean            hasChildNodes();
    Node               cloneNode(in boolean deep)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  };

  interface NodeList {
    Node               item(in unsigned long index);
    readonly attribute unsigned long    length;
  };

  interface NamedNodeMap {
    Node               getNamedItem(in DOMString name);
    Node               setNamedItem(in Node arg)
                                        raises(DOMException);
    Node               removeNamedItem(in DOMString name)
                                        raises(DOMException);
    Node               item(in unsigned long index);
    readonly attribute unsigned long    length;
  };

  interface CharacterData : Node {
             attribute DOMString        data;
                                        // raises(DOMException) on setting
                                        // raises(DOMException) on retrieval

    readonly attribute unsigned long    length;
    DOMString          substringData(in unsigned long offset, 
                                     in unsigned long count)
                                        raises(DOMException);
    void               appendData(in DOMString arg)
                                        raises(DOMException);
    void               insertData(in unsigned long offset, 
                                  in DOMString arg)
                                        raises(DOMException);
    void               deleteData(in unsigned long offset, 
                                  in unsigned long count)
                                        raises(DOMException);
    void               replaceData(in unsigned long offset, 
                                   in unsigned long count, 
                                   in DOMString arg)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  };

  interface Attr : Node {
    readonly attribute DOMString        name;
    readonly attribute boolean          specified;
    // Modified in DOM Level 1:
             attribute DOMString        value;
                                        // raises(DOMException) on setting

  };

  interface Element : Node {
    readonly attribute DOMString        tagName;
    DOMString          getAttribute(in DOMString name);
    void               setAttribute(in DOMString name, 
                                    in DOMString value)
                                        raises(DOMException);
    void               removeAttribute(in DOMString name)
                                        raises(DOMException);
    Attr               getAttributeNode(in DOMString name);
    Attr               setAttributeNode(in Attr newAttr)
                                        raises(DOMException);
    Attr               removeAttributeNode(in Attr oldAttr)
                                        raises(DOMException);
    NodeList           getElementsByTagName(in DOMString name);
    void               normalize();
  };

  interface Text : CharacterData {
    Text               splitText(in unsigned long offset)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  };

  interface Comment : CharacterData {
  };

  interface CDATASection : Text {
  };

  interface DocumentType : Node {
    readonly attribute DOMString        name;
    readonly attribute NamedNodeMap     entities;
    readonly attribute NamedNodeMap     notations;
  };

  interface Notation : Node {
    readonly attribute DOMString        publicId;
    readonly attribute DOMString        systemId;
  };

  interface Entity : Node {
    readonly attribute DOMString        publicId;
    readonly attribute DOMString        systemId;
    readonly attribute DOMString        notationName;
  };

  interface EntityReference : Node {
  };

  interface ProcessingInstruction : Node {
    readonly attribute DOMString        target;
             attribute DOMString        data;
                                        // raises(DOMException) on setting

  };

  interface DocumentFragment : Node {
  };

  interface Document : Node {
    readonly attribute DocumentType     doctype;
    readonly attribute DOMImplementation  implementation;
    readonly attribute Element          documentElement;
    Element            createElement(in DOMString tagName)
                                        raises(DOMException);
    DocumentFragment   createDocumentFragment();
    Text               createTextNode(in DOMString data);
    Comment            createComment(in DOMString data);
    CDATASection       createCDATASection(in DOMString data)
                                        raises(DOMException);
    ProcessingInstruction createProcessingInstruction(in DOMString target, 
                                                      in DOMString data)
                                        raises(DOMException);
    Attr               createAttribute(in DOMString name)
                                        raises(DOMException);
    EntityReference    createEntityReference(in DOMString name)
                                        raises(DOMException);
    NodeList           getElementsByTagName(in DOMString tagname);
  };
};

#endif // _DOM_IDL_

B.2: Document Object Model Level 1 HTML

html.idl:

// File: html.idl

#ifndef _HTML_IDL_
#define _HTML_IDL_

#include "dom.idl"

#pragma prefix "dom.w3c.org"
module html
{

  typedef dom::DOMString DOMString;
  typedef dom::Node Node;
  typedef dom::Document Document;
  typedef dom::Element Element;
  typedef dom::NodeList NodeList;

  interface HTMLElement;
  interface HTMLFormElement;
  interface HTMLTableCaptionElement;
  interface HTMLTableSectionElement;

  interface HTMLCollection {
    readonly attribute unsigned long    length;
    Node               item(in unsigned long index);
    Node               namedItem(in DOMString name);
  };

  interface HTMLDocument : Document {
             attribute DOMString        title;
    readonly attribute DOMString        referrer;
    readonly attribute DOMString        domain;
    readonly attribute DOMString        URL;
             attribute HTMLElement      body;
    readonly attribute HTMLCollection   images;
    readonly attribute HTMLCollection   applets;
    readonly attribute HTMLCollection   links;
    readonly attribute HTMLCollection   forms;
    readonly attribute HTMLCollection   anchors;
             attribute DOMString        cookie;
    void               open();
    void               close();
    void               write(in DOMString text);
    void               writeln(in DOMString text);
    Element            getElementById(in DOMString elementId);
    NodeList           getElementsByName(in DOMString elementName);
  };

  interface HTMLElement : Element {
             attribute DOMString        id;
             attribute DOMString        title;
             attribute DOMString        lang;
             attribute DOMString        dir;
             attribute DOMString        className;
  };

  interface HTMLHtmlElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        version;
  };

  interface HTMLHeadElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        profile;
  };

  interface HTMLLinkElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute boolean          disabled;
             attribute DOMString        charset;
             attribute DOMString        href;
             attribute DOMString        hreflang;
             attribute DOMString        media;
             attribute DOMString        rel;
             attribute DOMString        rev;
             attribute DOMString        target;
             attribute DOMString        type;
  };

  interface HTMLTitleElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        text;
  };

  interface HTMLMetaElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        content;
             attribute DOMString        httpEquiv;
             attribute DOMString        name;
             attribute DOMString        scheme;
  };

  interface HTMLBaseElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        href;
             attribute DOMString        target;
  };

  interface HTMLIsIndexElement : HTMLElement {
    readonly attribute HTMLFormElement  form;
             attribute DOMString        prompt;
  };

  interface HTMLStyleElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute boolean          disabled;
             attribute DOMString        media;
             attribute DOMString        type;
  };

  interface HTMLBodyElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        aLink;
             attribute DOMString        background;
             attribute DOMString        bgColor;
             attribute DOMString        link;
             attribute DOMString        text;
             attribute DOMString        vLink;
  };

  interface HTMLFormElement : HTMLElement {
    readonly attribute HTMLCollection   elements;
    readonly attribute long             length;
             attribute DOMString        name;
             attribute DOMString        acceptCharset;
             attribute DOMString        action;
             attribute DOMString        enctype;
             attribute DOMString        method;
             attribute DOMString        target;
    void               submit();
    void               reset();
  };

  interface HTMLSelectElement : HTMLElement {
    readonly attribute DOMString        type;
             attribute long             selectedIndex;
             attribute DOMString        value;
    readonly attribute long             length;
    readonly attribute HTMLFormElement  form;
    readonly attribute HTMLCollection   options;
             attribute boolean          disabled;
             attribute boolean          multiple;
             attribute DOMString        name;
             attribute long             size;
             attribute long             tabIndex;
    void               add(in HTMLElement element, 
                           in HTMLElement before)
                                        raises(dom::DOMException);
    void               remove(in long index);
    void               blur();
    void               focus();
  };

  interface HTMLOptGroupElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute boolean          disabled;
             attribute DOMString        label;
  };

  interface HTMLOptionElement : HTMLElement {
    readonly attribute HTMLFormElement  form;
             attribute boolean          defaultSelected;
    readonly attribute DOMString        text;
    readonly attribute long             index;
             attribute boolean          disabled;
             attribute DOMString        label;
             attribute boolean          selected;
             attribute DOMString        value;
  };

  interface HTMLInputElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        defaultValue;
             attribute boolean          defaultChecked;
    readonly attribute HTMLFormElement  form;
             attribute DOMString        accept;
             attribute DOMString        accessKey;
             attribute DOMString        align;
             attribute DOMString        alt;
             attribute boolean          checked;
             attribute boolean          disabled;
             attribute long             maxLength;
             attribute DOMString        name;
             attribute boolean          readOnly;
             attribute DOMString        size;
             attribute DOMString        src;
             attribute long             tabIndex;
    readonly attribute DOMString        type;
             attribute DOMString        useMap;
             attribute DOMString        value;
    void               blur();
    void               focus();
    void               select();
    void               click();
  };

  interface HTMLTextAreaElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        defaultValue;
    readonly attribute HTMLFormElement  form;
             attribute DOMString        accessKey;
             attribute long             cols;
             attribute boolean          disabled;
             attribute DOMString        name;
             attribute boolean          readOnly;
             attribute long             rows;
             attribute long             tabIndex;
    readonly attribute DOMString        type;
             attribute DOMString        value;
    void               blur();
    void               focus();
    void               select();
  };

  interface HTMLButtonElement : HTMLElement {
    readonly attribute HTMLFormElement  form;
             attribute DOMString        accessKey;
             attribute boolean          disabled;
             attribute DOMString        name;
             attribute long             tabIndex;
    readonly attribute DOMString        type;
             attribute DOMString        value;
  };

  interface HTMLLabelElement : HTMLElement {
    readonly attribute HTMLFormElement  form;
             attribute DOMString        accessKey;
             attribute DOMString        htmlFor;
  };

  interface HTMLFieldSetElement : HTMLElement {
    readonly attribute HTMLFormElement  form;
  };

  interface HTMLLegendElement : HTMLElement {
    readonly attribute HTMLFormElement  form;
             attribute DOMString        accessKey;
             attribute DOMString        align;
  };

  interface HTMLUListElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute boolean          compact;
             attribute DOMString        type;
  };

  interface HTMLOListElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute boolean          compact;
             attribute long             start;
             attribute DOMString        type;
  };

  interface HTMLDListElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute boolean          compact;
  };

  interface HTMLDirectoryElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute boolean          compact;
  };

  interface HTMLMenuElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute boolean          compact;
  };

  interface HTMLLIElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        type;
             attribute long             value;
  };

  interface HTMLDivElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        align;
  };

  interface HTMLParagraphElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        align;
  };

  interface HTMLHeadingElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        align;
  };

  interface HTMLQuoteElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        cite;
  };

  interface HTMLPreElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute long             width;
  };

  interface HTMLBRElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        clear;
  };

  interface HTMLBaseFontElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        color;
             attribute DOMString        face;
             attribute DOMString        size;
  };

  interface HTMLFontElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        color;
             attribute DOMString        face;
             attribute DOMString        size;
  };

  interface HTMLHRElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        align;
             attribute boolean          noShade;
             attribute DOMString        size;
             attribute DOMString        width;
  };

  interface HTMLModElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        cite;
             attribute DOMString        dateTime;
  };

  interface HTMLAnchorElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        accessKey;
             attribute DOMString        charset;
             attribute DOMString        coords;
             attribute DOMString        href;
             attribute DOMString        hreflang;
             attribute DOMString        name;
             attribute DOMString        rel;
             attribute DOMString        rev;
             attribute DOMString        shape;
             attribute long             tabIndex;
             attribute DOMString        target;
             attribute DOMString        type;
    void               blur();
    void               focus();
  };

  interface HTMLImageElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        lowSrc;
             attribute DOMString        name;
             attribute DOMString        align;
             attribute DOMString        alt;
             attribute DOMString        border;
             attribute DOMString        height;
             attribute DOMString        hspace;
             attribute boolean          isMap;
             attribute DOMString        longDesc;
             attribute DOMString        src;
             attribute DOMString        useMap;
             attribute DOMString        vspace;
             attribute DOMString        width;
  };

  interface HTMLObjectElement : HTMLElement {
    readonly attribute HTMLFormElement  form;
             attribute DOMString        code;
             attribute DOMString        align;
             attribute DOMString        archive;
             attribute DOMString        border;
             attribute DOMString        codeBase;
             attribute DOMString        codeType;
             attribute DOMString        data;
             attribute boolean          declare;
             attribute DOMString        height;
             attribute DOMString        hspace;
             attribute DOMString        name;
             attribute DOMString        standby;
             attribute long             tabIndex;
             attribute DOMString        type;
             attribute DOMString        useMap;
             attribute DOMString        vspace;
             attribute DOMString        width;
  };

  interface HTMLParamElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        name;
             attribute DOMString        type;
             attribute DOMString        value;
             attribute DOMString        valueType;
  };

  interface HTMLAppletElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        align;
             attribute DOMString        alt;
             attribute DOMString        archive;
             attribute DOMString        code;
             attribute DOMString        codeBase;
             attribute DOMString        height;
             attribute DOMString        hspace;
             attribute DOMString        name;
             attribute DOMString        object;
             attribute DOMString        vspace;
             attribute DOMString        width;
  };

  interface HTMLMapElement : HTMLElement {
    readonly attribute HTMLCollection   areas;
             attribute DOMString        name;
  };

  interface HTMLAreaElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        accessKey;
             attribute DOMString        alt;
             attribute DOMString        coords;
             attribute DOMString        href;
             attribute boolean          noHref;
             attribute DOMString        shape;
             attribute long             tabIndex;
             attribute DOMString        target;
  };

  interface HTMLScriptElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        text;
             attribute DOMString        htmlFor;
             attribute DOMString        event;
             attribute DOMString        charset;
             attribute boolean          defer;
             attribute DOMString        src;
             attribute DOMString        type;
  };

  interface HTMLTableElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute HTMLTableCaptionElement  caption;
             attribute HTMLTableSectionElement  tHead;
             attribute HTMLTableSectionElement  tFoot;
    readonly attribute HTMLCollection   rows;
    readonly attribute HTMLCollection   tBodies;
             attribute DOMString        align;
             attribute DOMString        bgColor;
             attribute DOMString        border;
             attribute DOMString        cellPadding;
             attribute DOMString        cellSpacing;
             attribute DOMString        frame;
             attribute DOMString        rules;
             attribute DOMString        summary;
             attribute DOMString        width;
    HTMLElement        createTHead();
    void               deleteTHead();
    HTMLElement        createTFoot();
    void               deleteTFoot();
    HTMLElement        createCaption();
    void               deleteCaption();
    HTMLElement        insertRow(in long index)
                                        raises(dom::DOMException);
    void               deleteRow(in long index)
                                        raises(dom::DOMException);
  };

  interface HTMLTableCaptionElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        align;
  };

  interface HTMLTableColElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        align;
             attribute DOMString        ch;
             attribute DOMString        chOff;
             attribute long             span;
             attribute DOMString        vAlign;
             attribute DOMString        width;
  };

  interface HTMLTableSectionElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        align;
             attribute DOMString        ch;
             attribute DOMString        chOff;
             attribute DOMString        vAlign;
    readonly attribute HTMLCollection   rows;
    HTMLElement        insertRow(in long index)
                                        raises(dom::DOMException);
    void               deleteRow(in long index)
                                        raises(dom::DOMException);
  };

  interface HTMLTableRowElement : HTMLElement {
    readonly attribute long             rowIndex;
    readonly attribute long             sectionRowIndex;
    readonly attribute HTMLCollection   cells;
             attribute DOMString        align;
             attribute DOMString        bgColor;
             attribute DOMString        ch;
             attribute DOMString        chOff;
             attribute DOMString        vAlign;
    HTMLElement        insertCell(in long index)
                                        raises(dom::DOMException);
    void               deleteCell(in long index)
                                        raises(dom::DOMException);
  };

  interface HTMLTableCellElement : HTMLElement {
    readonly attribute long             cellIndex;
             attribute DOMString        abbr;
             attribute DOMString        align;
             attribute DOMString        axis;
             attribute DOMString        bgColor;
             attribute DOMString        ch;
             attribute DOMString        chOff;
             attribute long             colSpan;
             attribute DOMString        headers;
             attribute DOMString        height;
             attribute boolean          noWrap;
             attribute long             rowSpan;
             attribute DOMString        scope;
             attribute DOMString        vAlign;
             attribute DOMString        width;
  };

  interface HTMLFrameSetElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        cols;
             attribute DOMString        rows;
  };

  interface HTMLFrameElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        frameBorder;
             attribute DOMString        longDesc;
             attribute DOMString        marginHeight;
             attribute DOMString        marginWidth;
             attribute DOMString        name;
             attribute boolean          noResize;
             attribute DOMString        scrolling;
             attribute DOMString        src;
  };

  interface HTMLIFrameElement : HTMLElement {
             attribute DOMString        align;
             attribute DOMString        frameBorder;
             attribute DOMString        height;
             attribute DOMString        longDesc;
             attribute DOMString        marginHeight;
             attribute DOMString        marginWidth;
             attribute DOMString        name;
             attribute DOMString        scrolling;
             attribute DOMString        src;
             attribute DOMString        width;
  };
};

#endif // _HTML_IDL_

29 September, 2000

Appendix C: Java Language Binding

This appendix contains the complete Java binding for the Level 1 Document Object Model. The definitions are divided into Core, HTML.

The Java files are also available as http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-DOM-Level-1-20000929/java-binding.zip

C.1: Document Object Model Level 1 Core

org/w3c/dom/DOMException.java:

package org.w3c.dom;

public class DOMException extends RuntimeException {
    public DOMException(short code, String message) {
       super(message);
       this.code = code;
    }
    public short   code;
    // ExceptionCode
    public static final short INDEX_SIZE_ERR            = 1;
    public static final short DOMSTRING_SIZE_ERR        = 2;
    public static final short HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR     = 3;
    public static final short WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR        = 4;
    public static final short INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR     = 5;
    public static final short NO_DATA_ALLOWED_ERR       = 6;
    public static final short NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR = 7;
    public static final short NOT_FOUND_ERR             = 8;
    public static final short NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR         = 9;
    public static final short INUSE_ATTRIBUTE_ERR       = 10;

}

org/w3c/dom/DOMImplementation.java:

package org.w3c.dom;

public interface DOMImplementation {
    public boolean hasFeature(String feature, 
                              String version);

}

org/w3c/dom/DocumentFragment.java:

package org.w3c.dom;

public interface DocumentFragment extends Node {
}

org/w3c/dom/Document.java:

package org.w3c.dom;

public interface Document extends Node {
    public DocumentType getDoctype();

    public DOMImplementation getImplementation();

    public Element getDocumentElement();

    public Element createElement(String tagName)
                                 throws DOMException;

    public DocumentFragment createDocumentFragment();

    public Text createTextNode(String data);

    public Comment createComment(String data);

    public CDATASection createCDATASection(String data)
                                           throws DOMException;

    public ProcessingInstruction createProcessingInstruction(String target, 
                                                             String data)
                                                             throws DOMException;

    public Attr createAttribute(String name)
                                throws DOMException;

    public EntityReference createEntityReference(String name)
                                                 throws DOMException;

    public NodeList getElementsByTagName(String tagname);

}

org/w3c/dom/Node.java:

package org.w3c.dom;

public interface Node {
    // NodeType
    public static final short ELEMENT_NODE              = 1;
    public static final short ATTRIBUTE_NODE            = 2;
    public static final short TEXT_NODE                 = 3;
    public static final short CDATA_SECTION_NODE        = 4;
    public static final short ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE     = 5;
    public static final short ENTITY_NODE               = 6;
    public static final short PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE = 7;
    public static final short COMMENT_NODE              = 8;
    public static final short DOCUMENT_NODE             = 9;
    public static final short DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE        = 10;
    public static final short DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE    = 11;
    public static final short NOTATION_NODE             = 12;

    public String getNodeName();

    public String getNodeValue()
                                         throws DOMException;
    public void setNodeValue(String nodeValue)
                                         throws DOMException;

    public short getNodeType();

    public Node getParentNode();

    public NodeList getChildNodes();

    public Node getFirstChild();

    public Node getLastChild();

    public Node getPreviousSibling();

    public Node getNextSibling();

    public NamedNodeMap getAttributes();

    public Document getOwnerDocument();

    public Node insertBefore(Node newChild, 
                             Node refChild)
                             throws DOMException;

    public Node replaceChild(Node newChild, 
                             Node oldChild)
                             throws DOMException;

    public Node removeChild(Node oldChild)
                            throws DOMException;

    public Node appendChild(Node newChild)
                            throws DOMException;

    public boolean hasChildNodes();

    public Node cloneNode(boolean deep)
                          throws DOMException;

}

org/w3c/dom/NodeList.java:

package org.w3c.dom;

public interface NodeList {
    public Node item(int index);

    public int getLength();

}

org/w3c/dom/NamedNodeMap.java:

package org.w3c.dom;

public interface NamedNodeMap {
    public Node getNamedItem(String name);

    public Node setNamedItem(Node arg)
                             throws DOMException;

    public Node removeNamedItem(String name)
                                throws DOMException;

    public Node item(int index);

    public int getLength();

}

org/w3c/dom/CharacterData.java:

package org.w3c.dom;

public interface CharacterData extends Node {
    public String getData()
                     throws DOMException;
    public void setData(String data)
                     throws DOMException;

    public int getLength();

    public String substringData(int offset, 
                                int count)
                                throws DOMException;

    public void appendData(String arg)
                           throws DOMException;

    public void insertData(int offset, 
                           String arg)
                           throws DOMException;

    public void deleteData(int offset, 
                           int count)
                           throws DOMException;

    public void replaceData(int offset, 
                            int count, 
                            String arg)
                            throws DOMException;

}

org/w3c/dom/Attr.java:

package org.w3c.dom;

public interface Attr extends Node {
    public String getName();

    public boolean getSpecified();

    public String getValue();
    public void setValue(String value)
                            throws DOMException;

}

org/w3c/dom/Element.java:

package org.w3c.dom;

public interface Element extends Node {
    public String getTagName();

    public String getAttribute(String name);

    public void setAttribute(String name, 
                             String value)
                             throws DOMException;

    public void removeAttribute(String name)
                                throws DOMException;

    public Attr getAttributeNode(String name);

    public Attr setAttributeNode(Attr newAttr)
                                 throws DOMException;

    public Attr removeAttributeNode(Attr oldAttr)
                                    throws DOMException;

    public NodeList getElementsByTagName(String name);

    public void normalize();

}

org/w3c/dom/Text.java:

package org.w3c.dom;

public interface Text extends CharacterData {
    public Text splitText(int offset)
                          throws DOMException;

}

org/w3c/dom/Comment.java:

package org.w3c.dom;

public interface Comment extends CharacterData {
}

org/w3c/dom/CDATASection.java:

package org.w3c.dom;

public interface CDATASection extends Text {
}

org/w3c/dom/DocumentType.java:

package org.w3c.dom;

public interface DocumentType extends Node {
    public String getName();

    public NamedNodeMap getEntities();

    public NamedNodeMap getNotations();

}

org/w3c/dom/Notation.java:

package org.w3c.dom;

public interface Notation extends Node {
    public String getPublicId();

    public String getSystemId();

}

org/w3c/dom/Entity.java:

package org.w3c.dom;

public interface Entity extends Node {
    public String getPublicId();

    public String getSystemId();

    public String getNotationName();

}

org/w3c/dom/EntityReference.java:

package org.w3c.dom;

public interface EntityReference extends Node {
}

org/w3c/dom/ProcessingInstruction.java:

package org.w3c.dom;

public interface ProcessingInstruction extends Node {
    public String getTarget();

    public String getData();
    public void setData(String data)
                          throws DOMException;

}

C.2: Document Object Model Level 1 HTML

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLCollection.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

import org.w3c.dom.Node;

public interface HTMLCollection {
    public int getLength();

    public Node item(int index);

    public Node namedItem(String name);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLDocument.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;

public interface HTMLDocument extends Document {
    public String getTitle();
    public void setTitle(String title);

    public String getReferrer();

    public String getDomain();

    public String getURL();

    public HTMLElement getBody();
    public void setBody(HTMLElement body);

    public HTMLCollection getImages();

    public HTMLCollection getApplets();

    public HTMLCollection getLinks();

    public HTMLCollection getForms();

    public HTMLCollection getAnchors();

    public String getCookie();
    public void setCookie(String cookie);

    public void open();

    public void close();

    public void write(String text);

    public void writeln(String text);

    public Element getElementById(String elementId);

    public NodeList getElementsByName(String elementName);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

import org.w3c.dom.Element;

public interface HTMLElement extends Element {
    public String getId();
    public void setId(String id);

    public String getTitle();
    public void setTitle(String title);

    public String getLang();
    public void setLang(String lang);

    public String getDir();
    public void setDir(String dir);

    public String getClassName();
    public void setClassName(String className);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLHtmlElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLHtmlElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getVersion();
    public void setVersion(String version);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLHeadElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLHeadElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getProfile();
    public void setProfile(String profile);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLLinkElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLLinkElement extends HTMLElement {
    public boolean getDisabled();
    public void setDisabled(boolean disabled);

    public String getCharset();
    public void setCharset(String charset);

    public String getHref();
    public void setHref(String href);

    public String getHreflang();
    public void setHreflang(String hreflang);

    public String getMedia();
    public void setMedia(String media);

    public String getRel();
    public void setRel(String rel);

    public String getRev();
    public void setRev(String rev);

    public String getTarget();
    public void setTarget(String target);

    public String getType();
    public void setType(String type);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLTitleElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLTitleElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getText();
    public void setText(String text);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLMetaElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLMetaElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getContent();
    public void setContent(String content);

    public String getHttpEquiv();
    public void setHttpEquiv(String httpEquiv);

    public String getName();
    public void setName(String name);

    public String getScheme();
    public void setScheme(String scheme);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLBaseElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLBaseElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getHref();
    public void setHref(String href);

    public String getTarget();
    public void setTarget(String target);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLIsIndexElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLIsIndexElement extends HTMLElement {
    public HTMLFormElement getForm();

    public String getPrompt();
    public void setPrompt(String prompt);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLStyleElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLStyleElement extends HTMLElement {
    public boolean getDisabled();
    public void setDisabled(boolean disabled);

    public String getMedia();
    public void setMedia(String media);

    public String getType();
    public void setType(String type);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLBodyElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLBodyElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getALink();
    public void setALink(String aLink);

    public String getBackground();
    public void setBackground(String background);

    public String getBgColor();
    public void setBgColor(String bgColor);

    public String getLink();
    public void setLink(String link);

    public String getText();
    public void setText(String text);

    public String getVLink();
    public void setVLink(String vLink);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLFormElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLFormElement extends HTMLElement {
    public HTMLCollection getElements();

    public int getLength();

    public String getName();
    public void setName(String name);

    public String getAcceptCharset();
    public void setAcceptCharset(String acceptCharset);

    public String getAction();
    public void setAction(String action);

    public String getEnctype();
    public void setEnctype(String enctype);

    public String getMethod();
    public void setMethod(String method);

    public String getTarget();
    public void setTarget(String target);

    public void submit();

    public void reset();

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLSelectElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;

public interface HTMLSelectElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getType();

    public int getSelectedIndex();
    public void setSelectedIndex(int selectedIndex);

    public String getValue();
    public void setValue(String value);

    public int getLength();

    public HTMLFormElement getForm();

    public HTMLCollection getOptions();

    public boolean getDisabled();
    public void setDisabled(boolean disabled);

    public boolean getMultiple();
    public void setMultiple(boolean multiple);

    public String getName();
    public void setName(String name);

    public int getSize();
    public void setSize(int size);

    public int getTabIndex();
    public void setTabIndex(int tabIndex);

    public void add(HTMLElement element, 
                    HTMLElement before)
                    throws DOMException;

    public void remove(int index);

    public void blur();

    public void focus();

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLOptGroupElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLOptGroupElement extends HTMLElement {
    public boolean getDisabled();
    public void setDisabled(boolean disabled);

    public String getLabel();
    public void setLabel(String label);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLOptionElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLOptionElement extends HTMLElement {
    public HTMLFormElement getForm();

    public boolean getDefaultSelected();
    public void setDefaultSelected(boolean defaultSelected);

    public String getText();

    public int getIndex();

    public boolean getDisabled();
    public void setDisabled(boolean disabled);

    public String getLabel();
    public void setLabel(String label);

    public boolean getSelected();
    public void setSelected(boolean selected);

    public String getValue();
    public void setValue(String value);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLInputElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLInputElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getDefaultValue();
    public void setDefaultValue(String defaultValue);

    public boolean getDefaultChecked();
    public void setDefaultChecked(boolean defaultChecked);

    public HTMLFormElement getForm();

    public String getAccept();
    public void setAccept(String accept);

    public String getAccessKey();
    public void setAccessKey(String accessKey);

    public String getAlign();
    public void setAlign(String align);

    public String getAlt();
    public void setAlt(String alt);

    public boolean getChecked();
    public void setChecked(boolean checked);

    public boolean getDisabled();
    public void setDisabled(boolean disabled);

    public int getMaxLength();
    public void setMaxLength(int maxLength);

    public String getName();
    public void setName(String name);

    public boolean getReadOnly();
    public void setReadOnly(boolean readOnly);

    public String getSize();
    public void setSize(String size);

    public String getSrc();
    public void setSrc(String src);

    public int getTabIndex();
    public void setTabIndex(int tabIndex);

    public String getType();

    public String getUseMap();
    public void setUseMap(String useMap);

    public String getValue();
    public void setValue(String value);

    public void blur();

    public void focus();

    public void select();

    public void click();

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLTextAreaElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLTextAreaElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getDefaultValue();
    public void setDefaultValue(String defaultValue);

    public HTMLFormElement getForm();

    public String getAccessKey();
    public void setAccessKey(String accessKey);

    public int getCols();
    public void setCols(int cols);

    public boolean getDisabled();
    public void setDisabled(boolean disabled);

    public String getName();
    public void setName(String name);

    public boolean getReadOnly();
    public void setReadOnly(boolean readOnly);

    public int getRows();
    public void setRows(int rows);

    public int getTabIndex();
    public void setTabIndex(int tabIndex);

    public String getType();

    public String getValue();
    public void setValue(String value);

    public void blur();

    public void focus();

    public void select();

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLButtonElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLButtonElement extends HTMLElement {
    public HTMLFormElement getForm();

    public String getAccessKey();
    public void setAccessKey(String accessKey);

    public boolean getDisabled();
    public void setDisabled(boolean disabled);

    public String getName();
    public void setName(String name);

    public int getTabIndex();
    public void setTabIndex(int tabIndex);

    public String getType();

    public String getValue();
    public void setValue(String value);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLLabelElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLLabelElement extends HTMLElement {
    public HTMLFormElement getForm();

    public String getAccessKey();
    public void setAccessKey(String accessKey);

    public String getHtmlFor();
    public void setHtmlFor(String htmlFor);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLFieldSetElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLFieldSetElement extends HTMLElement {
    public HTMLFormElement getForm();

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLLegendElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLLegendElement extends HTMLElement {
    public HTMLFormElement getForm();

    public String getAccessKey();
    public void setAccessKey(String accessKey);

    public String getAlign();
    public void setAlign(String align);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLUListElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLUListElement extends HTMLElement {
    public boolean getCompact();
    public void setCompact(boolean compact);

    public String getType();
    public void setType(String type);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLOListElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLOListElement extends HTMLElement {
    public boolean getCompact();
    public void setCompact(boolean compact);

    public int getStart();
    public void setStart(int start);

    public String getType();
    public void setType(String type);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLDListElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLDListElement extends HTMLElement {
    public boolean getCompact();
    public void setCompact(boolean compact);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLDirectoryElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLDirectoryElement extends HTMLElement {
    public boolean getCompact();
    public void setCompact(boolean compact);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLMenuElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLMenuElement extends HTMLElement {
    public boolean getCompact();
    public void setCompact(boolean compact);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLLIElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLLIElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getType();
    public void setType(String type);

    public int getValue();
    public void setValue(int value);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLDivElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLDivElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getAlign();
    public void setAlign(String align);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLParagraphElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLParagraphElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getAlign();
    public void setAlign(String align);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLHeadingElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLHeadingElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getAlign();
    public void setAlign(String align);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLQuoteElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLQuoteElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getCite();
    public void setCite(String cite);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLPreElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLPreElement extends HTMLElement {
    public int getWidth();
    public void setWidth(int width);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLBRElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLBRElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getClear();
    public void setClear(String clear);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLBaseFontElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLBaseFontElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getColor();
    public void setColor(String color);

    public String getFace();
    public void setFace(String face);

    public String getSize();
    public void setSize(String size);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLFontElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLFontElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getColor();
    public void setColor(String color);

    public String getFace();
    public void setFace(String face);

    public String getSize();
    public void setSize(String size);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLHRElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLHRElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getAlign();
    public void setAlign(String align);

    public boolean getNoShade();
    public void setNoShade(boolean noShade);

    public String getSize();
    public void setSize(String size);

    public String getWidth();
    public void setWidth(String width);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLModElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLModElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getCite();
    public void setCite(String cite);

    public String getDateTime();
    public void setDateTime(String dateTime);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLAnchorElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLAnchorElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getAccessKey();
    public void setAccessKey(String accessKey);

    public String getCharset();
    public void setCharset(String charset);

    public String getCoords();
    public void setCoords(String coords);

    public String getHref();
    public void setHref(String href);

    public String getHreflang();
    public void setHreflang(String hreflang);

    public String getName();
    public void setName(String name);

    public String getRel();
    public void setRel(String rel);

    public String getRev();
    public void setRev(String rev);

    public String getShape();
    public void setShape(String shape);

    public int getTabIndex();
    public void setTabIndex(int tabIndex);

    public String getTarget();
    public void setTarget(String target);

    public String getType();
    public void setType(String type);

    public void blur();

    public void focus();

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLImageElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLImageElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getLowSrc();
    public void setLowSrc(String lowSrc);

    public String getName();
    public void setName(String name);

    public String getAlign();
    public void setAlign(String align);

    public String getAlt();
    public void setAlt(String alt);

    public String getBorder();
    public void setBorder(String border);

    public String getHeight();
    public void setHeight(String height);

    public String getHspace();
    public void setHspace(String hspace);

    public boolean getIsMap();
    public void setIsMap(boolean isMap);

    public String getLongDesc();
    public void setLongDesc(String longDesc);

    public String getSrc();
    public void setSrc(String src);

    public String getUseMap();
    public void setUseMap(String useMap);

    public String getVspace();
    public void setVspace(String vspace);

    public String getWidth();
    public void setWidth(String width);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLObjectElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLObjectElement extends HTMLElement {
    public HTMLFormElement getForm();

    public String getCode();
    public void setCode(String code);

    public String getAlign();
    public void setAlign(String align);

    public String getArchive();
    public void setArchive(String archive);

    public String getBorder();
    public void setBorder(String border);

    public String getCodeBase();
    public void setCodeBase(String codeBase);

    public String getCodeType();
    public void setCodeType(String codeType);

    public String getData();
    public void setData(String data);

    public boolean getDeclare();
    public void setDeclare(boolean declare);

    public String getHeight();
    public void setHeight(String height);

    public String getHspace();
    public void setHspace(String hspace);

    public String getName();
    public void setName(String name);

    public String getStandby();
    public void setStandby(String standby);

    public int getTabIndex();
    public void setTabIndex(int tabIndex);

    public String getType();
    public void setType(String type);

    public String getUseMap();
    public void setUseMap(String useMap);

    public String getVspace();
    public void setVspace(String vspace);

    public String getWidth();
    public void setWidth(String width);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLParamElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLParamElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getName();
    public void setName(String name);

    public String getType();
    public void setType(String type);

    public String getValue();
    public void setValue(String value);

    public String getValueType();
    public void setValueType(String valueType);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLAppletElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLAppletElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getAlign();
    public void setAlign(String align);

    public String getAlt();
    public void setAlt(String alt);

    public String getArchive();
    public void setArchive(String archive);

    public String getCode();
    public void setCode(String code);

    public String getCodeBase();
    public void setCodeBase(String codeBase);

    public String getHeight();
    public void setHeight(String height);

    public String getHspace();
    public void setHspace(String hspace);

    public String getName();
    public void setName(String name);

    public String getObject();
    public void setObject(String object);

    public String getVspace();
    public void setVspace(String vspace);

    public String getWidth();
    public void setWidth(String width);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLMapElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLMapElement extends HTMLElement {
    public HTMLCollection getAreas();

    public String getName();
    public void setName(String name);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLAreaElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLAreaElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getAccessKey();
    public void setAccessKey(String accessKey);

    public String getAlt();
    public void setAlt(String alt);

    public String getCoords();
    public void setCoords(String coords);

    public String getHref();
    public void setHref(String href);

    public boolean getNoHref();
    public void setNoHref(boolean noHref);

    public String getShape();
    public void setShape(String shape);

    public int getTabIndex();
    public void setTabIndex(int tabIndex);

    public String getTarget();
    public void setTarget(String target);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLScriptElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLScriptElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getText();
    public void setText(String text);

    public String getHtmlFor();
    public void setHtmlFor(String htmlFor);

    public String getEvent();
    public void setEvent(String event);

    public String getCharset();
    public void setCharset(String charset);

    public boolean getDefer();
    public void setDefer(boolean defer);

    public String getSrc();
    public void setSrc(String src);

    public String getType();
    public void setType(String type);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLTableElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;

public interface HTMLTableElement extends HTMLElement {
    public HTMLTableCaptionElement getCaption();
    public void setCaption(HTMLTableCaptionElement caption);

    public HTMLTableSectionElement getTHead();
    public void setTHead(HTMLTableSectionElement tHead);

    public HTMLTableSectionElement getTFoot();
    public void setTFoot(HTMLTableSectionElement tFoot);

    public HTMLCollection getRows();

    public HTMLCollection getTBodies();

    public String getAlign();
    public void setAlign(String align);

    public String getBgColor();
    public void setBgColor(String bgColor);

    public String getBorder();
    public void setBorder(String border);

    public String getCellPadding();
    public void setCellPadding(String cellPadding);

    public String getCellSpacing();
    public void setCellSpacing(String cellSpacing);

    public String getFrame();
    public void setFrame(String frame);

    public String getRules();
    public void setRules(String rules);

    public String getSummary();
    public void setSummary(String summary);

    public String getWidth();
    public void setWidth(String width);

    public HTMLElement createTHead();

    public void deleteTHead();

    public HTMLElement createTFoot();

    public void deleteTFoot();

    public HTMLElement createCaption();

    public void deleteCaption();

    public HTMLElement insertRow(int index)
                                 throws DOMException;

    public void deleteRow(int index)
                          throws DOMException;

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLTableCaptionElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLTableCaptionElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getAlign();
    public void setAlign(String align);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLTableColElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLTableColElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getAlign();
    public void setAlign(String align);

    public String getCh();
    public void setCh(String ch);

    public String getChOff();
    public void setChOff(String chOff);

    public int getSpan();
    public void setSpan(int span);

    public String getVAlign();
    public void setVAlign(String vAlign);

    public String getWidth();
    public void setWidth(String width);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLTableSectionElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;

public interface HTMLTableSectionElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getAlign();
    public void setAlign(String align);

    public String getCh();
    public void setCh(String ch);

    public String getChOff();
    public void setChOff(String chOff);

    public String getVAlign();
    public void setVAlign(String vAlign);

    public HTMLCollection getRows();

    public HTMLElement insertRow(int index)
                                 throws DOMException;

    public void deleteRow(int index)
                          throws DOMException;

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLTableRowElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;

public interface HTMLTableRowElement extends HTMLElement {
    public int getRowIndex();

    public int getSectionRowIndex();

    public HTMLCollection getCells();

    public String getAlign();
    public void setAlign(String align);

    public String getBgColor();
    public void setBgColor(String bgColor);

    public String getCh();
    public void setCh(String ch);

    public String getChOff();
    public void setChOff(String chOff);

    public String getVAlign();
    public void setVAlign(String vAlign);

    public HTMLElement insertCell(int index)
                                  throws DOMException;

    public void deleteCell(int index)
                           throws DOMException;

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLTableCellElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLTableCellElement extends HTMLElement {
    public int getCellIndex();

    public String getAbbr();
    public void setAbbr(String abbr);

    public String getAlign();
    public void setAlign(String align);

    public String getAxis();
    public void setAxis(String axis);

    public String getBgColor();
    public void setBgColor(String bgColor);

    public String getCh();
    public void setCh(String ch);

    public String getChOff();
    public void setChOff(String chOff);

    public int getColSpan();
    public void setColSpan(int colSpan);

    public String getHeaders();
    public void setHeaders(String headers);

    public String getHeight();
    public void setHeight(String height);

    public boolean getNoWrap();
    public void setNoWrap(boolean noWrap);

    public int getRowSpan();
    public void setRowSpan(int rowSpan);

    public String getScope();
    public void setScope(String scope);

    public String getVAlign();
    public void setVAlign(String vAlign);

    public String getWidth();
    public void setWidth(String width);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLFrameSetElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLFrameSetElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getCols();
    public void setCols(String cols);

    public String getRows();
    public void setRows(String rows);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLFrameElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLFrameElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getFrameBorder();
    public void setFrameBorder(String frameBorder);

    public String getLongDesc();
    public void setLongDesc(String longDesc);

    public String getMarginHeight();
    public void setMarginHeight(String marginHeight);

    public String getMarginWidth();
    public void setMarginWidth(String marginWidth);

    public String getName();
    public void setName(String name);

    public boolean getNoResize();
    public void setNoResize(boolean noResize);

    public String getScrolling();
    public void setScrolling(String scrolling);

    public String getSrc();
    public void setSrc(String src);

}

org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLIFrameElement.java:

package org.w3c.dom.html;

public interface HTMLIFrameElement extends HTMLElement {
    public String getAlign();
    public void setAlign(String align);

    public String getFrameBorder();
    public void setFrameBorder(String frameBorder);

    public String getHeight();
    public void setHeight(String height);

    public String getLongDesc();
    public void setLongDesc(String longDesc);

    public String getMarginHeight();
    public void setMarginHeight(String marginHeight);

    public String getMarginWidth();
    public void setMarginWidth(String marginWidth);

    public String getName();
    public void setName(String name);

    public String getScrolling();
    public void setScrolling(String scrolling);

    public String getSrc();
    public void setSrc(String src);

    public String getWidth();
    public void setWidth(String width);

}

29 September, 2000

Appendix D: ECMA Script Language Binding

This appendix contains the complete ECMA Script binding for the Level 1 Document Object Model definitions. The definitions are divided into Core and HTML.

D.1: Document Object Model Level 1 Core

Object DOMImplementation
The DOMImplementation object has the following methods:
hasFeature(feature, version)
This method returns a Boolean.
The feature parameter is of type String.
The version parameter is of type String.
Object DocumentFragment
DocumentFragment has the all the properties and methods of the Node object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
Object Document
Document has the all the properties and methods of the Node object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The Document object has the following properties:
doctype
This read-only property is a DocumentType object.
implementation
This read-only property is a DOMImplementation object.
documentElement
This read-only property is a Element object.
The Document object has the following methods:
createElement(tagName)
This method returns a Element object.
The tagName parameter is of type String.
createDocumentFragment()
This method returns a DocumentFragment object.
createTextNode(data)
This method returns a Text object.
The data parameter is of type String.
createComment(data)
This method returns a Comment object.
The data parameter is of type String.
createCDATASection(data)
This method returns a CDATASection object.
The data parameter is of type String.
createProcessingInstruction(target, data)
This method returns a ProcessingInstruction object.
The target parameter is of type String.
The data parameter is of type String.
createAttribute(name)
This method returns a Attr object.
The name parameter is of type String.
createEntityReference(name)
This method returns a EntityReference object.
The name parameter is of type String.
getElementsByTagName(tagname)
This method returns a NodeList object.
The tagname parameter is of type String.
Prototype Object Node
The Node class has the following constants:
Node.ELEMENT_NODE
This constant is of type Number and its value is 1.
Node.ATTRIBUTE_NODE
This constant is of type Number and its value is 2.
Node.TEXT_NODE
This constant is of type Number and its value is 3.
Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE
This constant is of type Number and its value is 4.
Node.ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE
This constant is of type Number and its value is 5.
Node.ENTITY_NODE
This constant is of type Number and its value is 6.
Node.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE
This constant is of type Number and its value is 7.
Node.COMMENT_NODE
This constant is of type Number and its value is 8.
Node.DOCUMENT_NODE
This constant is of type Number and its value is 9.
Node.DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE
This constant is of type Number and its value is 10.
Node.DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE
This constant is of type Number and its value is 11.
Node.NOTATION_NODE
This constant is of type Number and its value is 12.
Object Node
The Node object has the following properties:
nodeName
This read-only property is of type String.
nodeValue
This property is of type String.
nodeType
This read-only property is of type Number.
parentNode
This read-only property is a Node object.
childNodes
This read-only property is a NodeList object.
firstChild
This read-only property is a Node object.
lastChild
This read-only property is a Node object.
previousSibling
This read-only property is a Node object.
nextSibling
This read-only property is a Node object.
attributes
This read-only property is a NamedNodeMap object.
ownerDocument
This read-only property is a Document object.
The Node object has the following methods:
insertBefore(newChild, refChild)
This method returns a Node object.
The newChild parameter is a Node object.
The refChild parameter is a Node object.
replaceChild(newChild, oldChild)
This method returns a Node object.
The newChild parameter is a Node object.
The oldChild parameter is a Node object.
removeChild(oldChild)
This method returns a Node object.
The oldChild parameter is a Node object.
appendChild(newChild)
This method returns a Node object.
The newChild parameter is a Node object.
hasChildNodes()
This method returns a Boolean.
cloneNode(deep)
This method returns a Node object.
The deep parameter is of type Boolean.
Object NodeList
The NodeList object has the following properties:
length
This read-only property is of type Number.
The NodeList object has the following methods:
item(index)
This method returns a Node object.
The index parameter is of type Number.
Note: This object can also be dereferenced using square bracket notation (e.g. obj[1]). Dereferencing with an integer index is equivalent to invoking the item method with that index.
Object NamedNodeMap
The NamedNodeMap object has the following properties:
length
This read-only property is of type Number.
The NamedNodeMap object has the following methods:
getNamedItem(name)
This method returns a Node object.
The name parameter is of type String.
setNamedItem(arg)
This method returns a Node object.
The arg parameter is a Node object.
removeNamedItem(name)
This method returns a Node object.
The name parameter is of type String.
item(index)
This method returns a Node object.
The index parameter is of type Number.
Note: This object can also be dereferenced using square bracket notation (e.g. obj[1]). Dereferencing with an integer index is equivalent to invoking the item method with that index.
Object CharacterData
CharacterData has the all the properties and methods of the Node object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The CharacterData object has the following properties:
data
This property is of type String.
length
This read-only property is of type Number.
The CharacterData object has the following methods:
substringData(offset, count)
This method returns a String.
The offset parameter is of type Number.
The count parameter is of type Number.
appendData(arg)
This method has no return value.
The arg parameter is of type String.
insertData(offset, arg)
This method has no return value.
The offset parameter is of type Number.
The arg parameter is of type String.
deleteData(offset, count)
This method has no return value.
The offset parameter is of type Number.
The count parameter is of type Number.
replaceData(offset, count, arg)
This method has no return value.
The offset parameter is of type Number.
The count parameter is of type Number.
The arg parameter is of type String.
Object Attr
Attr has the all the properties and methods of the Node object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The Attr object has the following properties:
name
This read-only property is of type String.
specified
This read-only property is of type Boolean.
value
This property is of type String.
Object Element
Element has the all the properties and methods of the Node object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The Element object has the following properties:
tagName
This read-only property is of type String.
The Element object has the following methods:
getAttribute(name)
This method returns a String.
The name parameter is of type String.
setAttribute(name, value)
This method has no return value.
The name parameter is of type String.
The value parameter is of type String.
removeAttribute(name)
This method has no return value.
The name parameter is of type String.
getAttributeNode(name)
This method returns a Attr object.
The name parameter is of type String.
setAttributeNode(newAttr)
This method returns a Attr object.
The newAttr parameter is a Attr object.
removeAttributeNode(oldAttr)
This method returns a Attr object.
The oldAttr parameter is a Attr object.
getElementsByTagName(name)
This method returns a NodeList object.
The name parameter is of type String.
normalize()
This method has no return value.
Object Text
Text has the all the properties and methods of the CharacterData object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The Text object has the following methods:
splitText(offset)
This method returns a Text object.
The offset parameter is of type Number.
Object Comment
Comment has the all the properties and methods of the CharacterData object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
Object CDATASection
CDATASection has the all the properties and methods of the Text object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
Object DocumentType
DocumentType has the all the properties and methods of the Node object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The DocumentType object has the following properties:
name
This read-only property is of type String.
entities
This read-only property is a NamedNodeMap object.
notations
This read-only property is a NamedNodeMap object.
Object Notation
Notation has the all the properties and methods of the Node object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The Notation object has the following properties:
publicId
This read-only property is of type String.
systemId
This read-only property is of type String.
Object Entity
Entity has the all the properties and methods of the Node object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The Entity object has the following properties:
publicId
This read-only property is of type String.
systemId
This read-only property is of type String.
notationName
This read-only property is of type String.
Object EntityReference
EntityReference has the all the properties and methods of the Node object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
Object ProcessingInstruction
ProcessingInstruction has the all the properties and methods of the Node object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The ProcessingInstruction object has the following properties:
target
This read-only property is of type String.
data
This property is of type String.

D.2: Document Object Model Level 1 HTML

Object HTMLCollection
The HTMLCollection object has the following properties:
length
This read-only property is of type Number.
The HTMLCollection object has the following methods:
item(index)
This method returns a Node object.
The index parameter is of type Number.
Note: This object can also be dereferenced using square bracket notation (e.g. obj[1]). Dereferencing with an integer index is equivalent to invoking the item method with that index.
namedItem(name)
This method returns a Node object.
The name parameter is of type String.
Note: This object can also be dereferenced using square bracket notation (e.g. obj["foo"]). Dereferencing using a string index is equivalent to invoking the namedItem method with that index.
Object HTMLDocument
HTMLDocument has the all the properties and methods of the Document object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLDocument object has the following properties:
title
This property is of type String.
referrer
This read-only property is of type String.
domain
This read-only property is of type String.
URL
This read-only property is of type String.
body
This property is a HTMLElement object.
images
This read-only property is a HTMLCollection object.
applets
This read-only property is a HTMLCollection object.
links
This read-only property is a HTMLCollection object.
forms
This read-only property is a HTMLCollection object.
anchors
This read-only property is a HTMLCollection object.
cookie
This property is of type String.
The HTMLDocument object has the following methods:
open()
This method has no return value.
close()
This method has no return value.
write(text)
This method has no return value.
The text parameter is of type String.
writeln(text)
This method has no return value.
The text parameter is of type String.
getElementById(elementId)
This method returns a Element object.
The elementId parameter is of type String.
getElementsByName(elementName)
This method returns a NodeList object.
The elementName parameter is of type String.
Object HTMLElement
HTMLElement has the all the properties and methods of the Element object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLElement object has the following properties:
id
This property is of type String.
title
This property is of type String.
lang
This property is of type String.
dir
This property is of type String.
className
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLHtmlElement
HTMLHtmlElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLHtmlElement object has the following properties:
version
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLHeadElement
HTMLHeadElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLHeadElement object has the following properties:
profile
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLLinkElement
HTMLLinkElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLLinkElement object has the following properties:
disabled
This property is of type Boolean.
charset
This property is of type String.
href
This property is of type String.
hreflang
This property is of type String.
media
This property is of type String.
rel
This property is of type String.
rev
This property is of type String.
target
This property is of type String.
type
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLTitleElement
HTMLTitleElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLTitleElement object has the following properties:
text
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLMetaElement
HTMLMetaElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLMetaElement object has the following properties:
content
This property is of type String.
httpEquiv
This property is of type String.
name
This property is of type String.
scheme
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLBaseElement
HTMLBaseElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLBaseElement object has the following properties:
href
This property is of type String.
target
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLIsIndexElement
HTMLIsIndexElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLIsIndexElement object has the following properties:
form
This read-only property is a HTMLFormElement object.
prompt
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLStyleElement
HTMLStyleElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLStyleElement object has the following properties:
disabled
This property is of type Boolean.
media
This property is of type String.
type
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLBodyElement
HTMLBodyElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLBodyElement object has the following properties:
aLink
This property is of type String.
background
This property is of type String.
bgColor
This property is of type String.
link
This property is of type String.
text
This property is of type String.
vLink
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLFormElement
HTMLFormElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLFormElement object has the following properties:
elements
This read-only property is a HTMLCollection object.
length
This read-only property is a long object.
name
This property is of type String.
acceptCharset
This property is of type String.
action
This property is of type String.
enctype
This property is of type String.
method
This property is of type String.
target
This property is of type String.
The HTMLFormElement object has the following methods:
submit()
This method has no return value.
reset()
This method has no return value.
Object HTMLSelectElement
HTMLSelectElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLSelectElement object has the following properties:
type
This read-only property is of type String.
selectedIndex
This property is a long object.
value
This property is of type String.
length
This read-only property is a long object.
form
This read-only property is a HTMLFormElement object.
options
This read-only property is a HTMLCollection object.
disabled
This property is of type Boolean.
multiple
This property is of type Boolean.
name
This property is of type String.
size
This property is a long object.
tabIndex
This property is a long object.
The HTMLSelectElement object has the following methods:
add(element, before)
This method has no return value.
The element parameter is a HTMLElement object.
The before parameter is a HTMLElement object.
remove(index)
This method has no return value.
The index parameter is a long object.
blur()
This method has no return value.
focus()
This method has no return value.
Object HTMLOptGroupElement
HTMLOptGroupElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLOptGroupElement object has the following properties:
disabled
This property is of type Boolean.
label
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLOptionElement
HTMLOptionElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLOptionElement object has the following properties:
form
This read-only property is a HTMLFormElement object.
defaultSelected
This property is of type Boolean.
text
This read-only property is of type String.
index
This read-only property is a long object.
disabled
This property is of type Boolean.
label
This property is of type String.
selected
This property is of type Boolean.
value
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLInputElement
HTMLInputElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLInputElement object has the following properties:
defaultValue
This property is of type String.
defaultChecked
This property is of type Boolean.
form
This read-only property is a HTMLFormElement object.
accept
This property is of type String.
accessKey
This property is of type String.
align
This property is of type String.
alt
This property is of type String.
checked
This property is of type Boolean.
disabled
This property is of type Boolean.
maxLength
This property is a long object.
name
This property is of type String.
readOnly
This property is of type Boolean.
size
This property is of type String.
src
This property is of type String.
tabIndex
This property is a long object.
type
This read-only property is of type String.
useMap
This property is of type String.
value
This property is of type String.
The HTMLInputElement object has the following methods:
blur()
This method has no return value.
focus()
This method has no return value.
select()
This method has no return value.
click()
This method has no return value.
Object HTMLTextAreaElement
HTMLTextAreaElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLTextAreaElement object has the following properties:
defaultValue
This property is of type String.
form
This read-only property is a HTMLFormElement object.
accessKey
This property is of type String.
cols
This property is a long object.
disabled
This property is of type Boolean.
name
This property is of type String.
readOnly
This property is of type Boolean.
rows
This property is a long object.
tabIndex
This property is a long object.
type
This read-only property is of type String.
value
This property is of type String.
The HTMLTextAreaElement object has the following methods:
blur()
This method has no return value.
focus()
This method has no return value.
select()
This method has no return value.
Object HTMLButtonElement
HTMLButtonElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLButtonElement object has the following properties:
form
This read-only property is a HTMLFormElement object.
accessKey
This property is of type String.
disabled
This property is of type Boolean.
name
This property is of type String.
tabIndex
This property is a long object.
type
This read-only property is of type String.
value
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLLabelElement
HTMLLabelElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLLabelElement object has the following properties:
form
This read-only property is a HTMLFormElement object.
accessKey
This property is of type String.
htmlFor
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLFieldSetElement
HTMLFieldSetElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLFieldSetElement object has the following properties:
form
This read-only property is a HTMLFormElement object.
Object HTMLLegendElement
HTMLLegendElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLLegendElement object has the following properties:
form
This read-only property is a HTMLFormElement object.
accessKey
This property is of type String.
align
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLUListElement
HTMLUListElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLUListElement object has the following properties:
compact
This property is of type Boolean.
type
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLOListElement
HTMLOListElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLOListElement object has the following properties:
compact
This property is of type Boolean.
start
This property is a long object.
type
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLDListElement
HTMLDListElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLDListElement object has the following properties:
compact
This property is of type Boolean.
Object HTMLDirectoryElement
HTMLDirectoryElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLDirectoryElement object has the following properties:
compact
This property is of type Boolean.
Object HTMLMenuElement
HTMLMenuElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLMenuElement object has the following properties:
compact
This property is of type Boolean.
Object HTMLLIElement
HTMLLIElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLLIElement object has the following properties:
type
This property is of type String.
value
This property is a long object.
Object HTMLDivElement
HTMLDivElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLDivElement object has the following properties:
align
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLParagraphElement
HTMLParagraphElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLParagraphElement object has the following properties:
align
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLHeadingElement
HTMLHeadingElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLHeadingElement object has the following properties:
align
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLQuoteElement
HTMLQuoteElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLQuoteElement object has the following properties:
cite
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLPreElement
HTMLPreElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLPreElement object has the following properties:
width
This property is a long object.
Object HTMLBRElement
HTMLBRElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLBRElement object has the following properties:
clear
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLBaseFontElement
HTMLBaseFontElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLBaseFontElement object has the following properties:
color
This property is of type String.
face
This property is of type String.
size
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLFontElement
HTMLFontElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLFontElement object has the following properties:
color
This property is of type String.
face
This property is of type String.
size
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLHRElement
HTMLHRElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLHRElement object has the following properties:
align
This property is of type String.
noShade
This property is of type Boolean.
size
This property is of type String.
width
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLModElement
HTMLModElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLModElement object has the following properties:
cite
This property is of type String.
dateTime
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLAnchorElement
HTMLAnchorElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLAnchorElement object has the following properties:
accessKey
This property is of type String.
charset
This property is of type String.
coords
This property is of type String.
href
This property is of type String.
hreflang
This property is of type String.
name
This property is of type String.
rel
This property is of type String.
rev
This property is of type String.
shape
This property is of type String.
tabIndex
This property is a long object.
target
This property is of type String.
type
This property is of type String.
The HTMLAnchorElement object has the following methods:
blur()
This method has no return value.
focus()
This method has no return value.
Object HTMLImageElement
HTMLImageElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLImageElement object has the following properties:
lowSrc
This property is of type String.
name
This property is of type String.
align
This property is of type String.
alt
This property is of type String.
border
This property is of type String.
height
This property is of type String.
hspace
This property is of type String.
isMap
This property is of type Boolean.
longDesc
This property is of type String.
src
This property is of type String.
useMap
This property is of type String.
vspace
This property is of type String.
width
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLObjectElement
HTMLObjectElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLObjectElement object has the following properties:
form
This read-only property is a HTMLFormElement object.
code
This property is of type String.
align
This property is of type String.
archive
This property is of type String.
border
This property is of type String.
codeBase
This property is of type String.
codeType
This property is of type String.
data
This property is of type String.
declare
This property is of type Boolean.
height
This property is of type String.
hspace
This property is of type String.
name
This property is of type String.
standby
This property is of type String.
tabIndex
This property is a long object.
type
This property is of type String.
useMap
This property is of type String.
vspace
This property is of type String.
width
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLParamElement
HTMLParamElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLParamElement object has the following properties:
name
This property is of type String.
type
This property is of type String.
value
This property is of type String.
valueType
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLAppletElement
HTMLAppletElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLAppletElement object has the following properties:
align
This property is of type String.
alt
This property is of type String.
archive
This property is of type String.
code
This property is of type String.
codeBase
This property is of type String.
height
This property is of type String.
hspace
This property is of type String.
name
This property is of type String.
object
This property is of type String.
vspace
This property is of type String.
width
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLMapElement
HTMLMapElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLMapElement object has the following properties:
areas
This read-only property is a HTMLCollection object.
name
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLAreaElement
HTMLAreaElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLAreaElement object has the following properties:
accessKey
This property is of type String.
alt
This property is of type String.
coords
This property is of type String.
href
This property is of type String.
noHref
This property is of type Boolean.
shape
This property is of type String.
tabIndex
This property is a long object.
target
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLScriptElement
HTMLScriptElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLScriptElement object has the following properties:
text
This property is of type String.
htmlFor
This property is of type String.
event
This property is of type String.
charset
This property is of type String.
defer
This property is of type Boolean.
src
This property is of type String.
type
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLTableElement
HTMLTableElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLTableElement object has the following properties:
caption
This property is a HTMLTableCaptionElement object.
tHead
This property is a HTMLTableSectionElement object.
tFoot
This property is a HTMLTableSectionElement object.
rows
This read-only property is a HTMLCollection object.
tBodies
This read-only property is a HTMLCollection object.
align
This property is of type String.
bgColor
This property is of type String.
border
This property is of type String.
cellPadding
This property is of type String.
cellSpacing
This property is of type String.
frame
This property is of type String.
rules
This property is of type String.
summary
This property is of type String.
width
This property is of type String.
The HTMLTableElement object has the following methods:
createTHead()
This method returns a HTMLElement object.
deleteTHead()
This method has no return value.
createTFoot()
This method returns a HTMLElement object.
deleteTFoot()
This method has no return value.
createCaption()
This method returns a HTMLElement object.
deleteCaption()
This method has no return value.
insertRow(index)
This method returns a HTMLElement object.
The index parameter is a long object.
deleteRow(index)
This method has no return value.
The index parameter is a long object.
Object HTMLTableCaptionElement
HTMLTableCaptionElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLTableCaptionElement object has the following properties:
align
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLTableColElement
HTMLTableColElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLTableColElement object has the following properties:
align
This property is of type String.
ch
This property is of type String.
chOff
This property is of type String.
span
This property is a long object.
vAlign
This property is of type String.
width
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLTableSectionElement
HTMLTableSectionElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLTableSectionElement object has the following properties:
align
This property is of type String.
ch
This property is of type String.
chOff
This property is of type String.
vAlign
This property is of type String.
rows
This read-only property is a HTMLCollection object.
The HTMLTableSectionElement object has the following methods:
insertRow(index)
This method returns a HTMLElement object.
The index parameter is a long object.
deleteRow(index)
This method has no return value.
The index parameter is a long object.
Object HTMLTableRowElement
HTMLTableRowElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLTableRowElement object has the following properties:
rowIndex
This read-only property is a long object.
sectionRowIndex
This read-only property is a long object.
cells
This read-only property is a HTMLCollection object.
align
This property is of type String.
bgColor
This property is of type String.
ch
This property is of type String.
chOff
This property is of type String.
vAlign
This property is of type String.
The HTMLTableRowElement object has the following methods:
insertCell(index)
This method returns a HTMLElement object.
The index parameter is a long object.
deleteCell(index)
This method has no return value.
The index parameter is a long object.
Object HTMLTableCellElement
HTMLTableCellElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLTableCellElement object has the following properties:
cellIndex
This read-only property is a long object.
abbr
This property is of type String.
align
This property is of type String.
axis
This property is of type String.
bgColor
This property is of type String.
ch
This property is of type String.
chOff
This property is of type String.
colSpan
This property is a long object.
headers
This property is of type String.
height
This property is of type String.
noWrap
This property is of type Boolean.
rowSpan
This property is a long object.
scope
This property is of type String.
vAlign
This property is of type String.
width
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLFrameSetElement
HTMLFrameSetElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLFrameSetElement object has the following properties:
cols
This property is of type String.
rows
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLFrameElement
HTMLFrameElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLFrameElement object has the following properties:
frameBorder
This property is of type String.
longDesc
This property is of type String.
marginHeight
This property is of type String.
marginWidth
This property is of type String.
name
This property is of type String.
noResize
This property is of type Boolean.
scrolling
This property is of type String.
src
This property is of type String.
Object HTMLIFrameElement
HTMLIFrameElement has the all the properties and methods of the HTMLElement object as well as the properties and methods defined below.
The HTMLIFrameElement object has the following properties:
align
This property is of type String.
frameBorder
This property is of type String.
height
This property is of type String.
longDesc
This property is of type String.
marginHeight
This property is of type String.
marginWidth
This property is of type String.
name
This property is of type String.
scrolling
This property is of type String.
src
This property is of type String.
width
This property is of type String.

29 September, 2000

References

For the latest version of any W3C specification please consult the list of W3C Technical Reports available at http://www.w3.org/TR.

G.1: Normative references

Charmod
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Character Model for the World Wide Web, November 1999. Available at http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-charmod-19991129
ECMAScript
ECMA (European Computer Manufacturers Association) ECMAScript Language Specification. Available at http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/STAND/ECMA-262.HTM
HTML4.0
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) HTML 4.0 Specification, April 1998. Available at http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424
ISO/IEC 10646
ISO (International Organization for Standardization). ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 (E). Information technology - Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) - Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane. [Geneva]: International Organization for Standardization.
Java
Sun Microsystems Inc. The Java Language Specification, James Gosling, Bill Joy, and Guy Steele, September 1996. Available at http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls
OMGIDL
OMG (Object Management Group) IDL (Interface Definition Language) defined in The Common Object Request Broker: Architecture and Specification, version 2.2. Available at http://www.omg.org/
Unicode
The Unicode Consortium. The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0., February 2000. Available at http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/versions/Unicode3.0.html.
XML
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0, February 1998. Available at http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210

G.2: Informative references

COM
Microsoft Corporation The Component Object Model. Available at http://www.microsoft.com/com
CORBA
OMG (Object Management Group) The Common Object Request Broker: Architecture and Specification, version 2.3.1, October 1999. Available at http://www.omg.org/
HTML3.2
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) HTML 3.2 Specification, January 1997. Available at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32
Infoset
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) XML Information Set, December 1999. Available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset
JavaIDL
Sun Microsystems Inc. Java IDL. Available at http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/guide/idl
JavaScript
Netscape Communications Corporation JavaScript Resources. Available at http://developer.netscape.com/one/javascript/resources.html
MIDL
Microsoft Corporation MIDL Language Reference. Available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/midl/mi-laref_1r1h.htm
XHTML10
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) XHTML 1.0: Extensible HyperText Markup Language, A Reformulation of HTML 4.0 in XML 1.0. Available at http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml1-20000126
XPointer
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) XML Pointer Language (XPointer), June 2000. Available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr

29 September, 2000

Objects Index

Document Object Model Core

Attr    CDATASection    CharacterData   
Comment    DOMException    DOMImplementation   
DOMString    Document    DocumentFragment   
DocumentType    Element    Entity   
EntityReference    ExceptionCode    NamedNodeMap   
Node    NodeList    Notation   
ProcessingInstruction    Text   

Document Object Model HTML

HTMLAnchorElement    HTMLAppletElement    HTMLAreaElement   
HTMLBRElement    HTMLBaseElement    HTMLBaseFontElement   
HTMLBodyElement    HTMLButtonElement    HTMLCollection   
HTMLDListElement    HTMLDirectoryElement    HTMLDivElement   
HTMLDocument    HTMLElement    HTMLFieldSetElement   
HTMLFontElement    HTMLFormElement    HTMLFrameElement   
HTMLFrameSetElement    HTMLHRElement    HTMLHeadElement   
HTMLHeadingElement    HTMLHtmlElement    HTMLIFrameElement   
HTMLImageElement    HTMLInputElement    HTMLIsIndexElement   
HTMLLIElement    HTMLLabelElement    HTMLLegendElement   
HTMLLinkElement    HTMLMapElement    HTMLMenuElement   
HTMLMetaElement    HTMLModElement    HTMLOListElement   
HTMLObjectElement    HTMLOptGroupElement    HTMLOptionElement   
HTMLParagraphElement    HTMLParamElement    HTMLPreElement   
HTMLQuoteElement    HTMLScriptElement    HTMLSelectElement   
HTMLStyleElement    HTMLTableCaptionElement    HTMLTableCellElement   
HTMLTableColElement    HTMLTableElement    HTMLTableRowElement   
HTMLTableSectionElement    HTMLTextAreaElement    HTMLTitleElement   
HTMLUListElement   

29 September, 2000

Index

16-bit unit 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
 
abbr accept acceptCharset
accessKey 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 action add
align 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 aLink alt 1, 2, 3, 4
ancestor anchors API
appendChild appendData applets
archive 1, 2 areas Attr
ATTRIBUTE_NODE attributes axis
 
background bgColor 1, 2, 3, 4 blur 1, 2, 3, 4
body border 1, 2, 3
 
caption CDATA_SECTION_NODE CDATASection
cellIndex cellPadding cells
cellSpacing ch 1, 2, 3, 4 CharacterData
Charmod 1, 2 charset 1, 2, 3 checked
child childNodes chOff 1, 2, 3, 4
cite 1, 2 className clear
click client application cloneNode
close code 1, 2 codeBase 1, 2
codeType color 1, 2 cols 1, 2
colSpan COM 1, 2 Comment
COMMENT_NODE compact 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 content
content model context convenience
cooked model cookie coords 1, 2
CORBA 1, 2, 3, 4 createAttribute createCaption
createCDATASection createComment createDocumentFragment
createElement createEntityReference createProcessingInstruction
createTextNode createTFoot createTHead
cursor
 
data 1, 2, 3 data model dateTime
declare defaultChecked defaultSelected
defaultValue 1, 2 defer deleteCaption
deleteCell deleteData deleteRow 1, 2
deleteTFoot deleteTHead deprecation
descendant dir disabled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
doctype Document DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE
DOCUMENT_NODE DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE documentElement
DocumentFragment DocumentType DOM Level 0 1, 2, 3, 4
domain DOMException DOMImplementation
DOMString DOMSTRING_SIZE_ERR
 
ECMAScript 1, 2, 3 Element 1, 2 ELEMENT_NODE
elements enctype entities
Entity ENTITY_NODE ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE
EntityReference equivalence event
event propagation, also known as event bubbling
 
face 1, 2 firstChild focus 1, 2, 3, 4
form 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 forms frame
frameBorder 1, 2
 
getAttribute getAttributeNode getElementById
getElementsByName getElementsByTagName 1, 2 getNamedItem
 
hasChildNodes hasFeature headers
height 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR hosting implementation
href 1, 2, 3, 4 hreflang 1, 2 hspace 1, 2, 3
HTML HTML3.2 1, 2 HTML4.0 1, 2, 3
HTMLAnchorElement HTMLAppletElement HTMLAreaElement
HTMLBaseElement HTMLBaseFontElement HTMLBodyElement
HTMLBRElement HTMLButtonElement HTMLCollection
HTMLDirectoryElement HTMLDivElement HTMLDListElement
HTMLDocument HTMLElement HTMLFieldSetElement
HTMLFontElement htmlFor 1, 2 HTMLFormElement
HTMLFrameElement HTMLFrameSetElement HTMLHeadElement
HTMLHeadingElement HTMLHRElement HTMLHtmlElement
HTMLIFrameElement HTMLImageElement HTMLInputElement
HTMLIsIndexElement HTMLLabelElement HTMLLegendElement
HTMLLIElement HTMLLinkElement HTMLMapElement
HTMLMenuElement HTMLMetaElement HTMLModElement
HTMLObjectElement HTMLOListElement HTMLOptGroupElement
HTMLOptionElement HTMLParagraphElement HTMLParamElement
HTMLPreElement HTMLQuoteElement HTMLScriptElement
HTMLSelectElement HTMLStyleElement HTMLTableCaptionElement
HTMLTableCellElement HTMLTableColElement HTMLTableElement
HTMLTableRowElement HTMLTableSectionElement HTMLTextAreaElement
HTMLTitleElement HTMLUListElement httpEquiv
 
id IDL images
implementation implementor index
INDEX_SIZE_ERR information item 1, 2 Infoset 1, 2, 3, 4
inheritance initial structure model insertBefore
insertCell insertData insertRow 1, 2
interface INUSE_ATTRIBUTE_ERR INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR
isMap ISO/IEC 10646 1, 2, 3 item 1, 2, 3
 
Java 1, 2 JavaIDL 1, 2 JavaScript 1, 2
 
label 1, 2 lang language binding
lastChild length 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 link
links live 1, 2, 3 longDesc 1, 2, 3
lowSrc
 
marginHeight 1, 2 marginWidth 1, 2 maxLength
media 1, 2 method 1, 2 MIDL 1, 2
model multiple
 
name 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 namedItem NamedNodeMap
nextSibling NO_DATA_ALLOWED_ERR NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR
Node NodeList nodeName
nodeType nodeValue noHref
noResize normalize noShade
NOT_FOUND_ERR NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR Notation
NOTATION_NODE notationName notations
noWrap
 
object object model OMGIDL 1, 2
open options ownerDocument
 
parent parentNode previousSibling
PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE ProcessingInstruction profile
prompt publicId 1, 2
 
readOnly 1, 2 readonly node 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 referrer
rel 1, 2 remove removeAttribute
removeAttributeNode removeChild removeNamedItem
replaceChild replaceData reset
rev 1, 2 root node rowIndex
rows 1, 2, 3, 4 rowSpan rules
 
scheme scope scrolling 1, 2
sectionRowIndex select 1, 2 selected
selectedIndex setAttribute setAttributeNode
setNamedItem shape 1, 2 sibling
size 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 span specified
splitText src 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 standby
start string comparison submit
substringData summary systemId 1, 2
 
tabIndex 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 tag valid document tagName
target 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 tBodies Text 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
TEXT_NODE tFoot tHead
title 1, 2 type 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 type valid document
 
uncooked model Unicode 1, 2, 3 URL
useMap 1, 2, 3
 
vAlign 1, 2, 3, 4 value 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 valueType
version vLink vspace 1, 2, 3
 
well-formed document width 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 write
writeln WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR
 
XHTML10 1, 2 XML 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 XML name 1, 2
XPointer 1, 2

29 September, 2000

Production Notes (Non-Normative)

Editors
Gavin Nicol, Inso EPS

The DOM specification serves as a good example of the power of using XML: all of the HTML documents, Java bindings, OMG IDL bindings, and ECMA Script bindings are generated from a single set of XML source files. This section outlines how this specification is written in XML, and how the various derived works are created.

A. The Document Type Definition

This specification was written entirely in XML, using a DTD based heavily on the DTD used by the XML Working Group for the XML specification. The major difference between the DTD used by the XML Working Group, and the DTD used for this specification is the addition of a DTD module for interface specifications.

The DTD module for interfaces specifications is a very loose translation of the Extended Backus-Naur Form (EBNF) specification of the OMG IDL syntax into XML DTD syntax. In addition to the translation, the ability to describe the interfaces was added, thereby creating a limited form of literate programming for interface definitions.

While the DTD module is sufficient for the purposes of the DOM WG, it is very loosely typed, meaning that there are very few constraints placed on the type specifications (the type information is effectively treated as an opaque string). In a DTD for object to object communication, some stricter enforcement of data types would probably be beneficial.

B. The production process

The DOM specification is written using XML. All documents are valid XML. In order to produce the HTML versions of the specification, the object indexes, the Java source code, and the OMG IDL and ECMA Script definitions, the XML specification is converted.

The tool currently used for conversion is COST by Joe English. COST takes the ESIS output of nsgmls, creates an internal representation, and then allows scripts, and event handlers to be run over the internal data structure. Event handlers allow document patterns and associated processing to be specified: when the pattern is matched during a pre-order traversal of a document subtree, the associated action is executed. This is the heart of the conversion process. Scripts are used to tie the various components together. For example, each of the major derived data sources (Java code etc.) is created by the execution of a script, which in turn executes one or more event handlers. The scripts and event handlers are specified using TCL.

The current version of COST has been somewhat modified from the publicly available version. In particular, it now runs correctly under 32-bit Windows, uses TCL 8.0, and correctly handles the case sensitivity of XML (though it probably could not correctly handle native language markup).

We could also have used Jade, by James Clark. Like COST, Jade allows patterns and actions to be specified, but Jade is based on DSSSL, an international standard, whereas COST is not. Jade is more powerful than COST in many ways, but prior experience of the editor with Cost made it easier to use this rather than Jade. A future version or Level of the DOM specification may be produced using Jade or an XSL processor.

The complete XML source files are available at: http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-DOM-Level-1-20000929/xml-source.zip

Note: The DOM Level 1 Specification Second Edition has been produced using a DOM Level 2 implementation and an XPath implementation in Java.

C. Object Definitions

As stated earlier, all object definitions are specified in XML. The Java bindings, OMG IDL bindings, and ECMA Script bindings are all generated automatically from the XML source code.

This is possible because the information specified in XML is a superset of what these other syntax need. This is a general observation, and the same kind of technique can be applied to many other areas: given rich structure, rich processing and conversion are possible. For Java and OMG IDL, it is basically just a matter of renaming syntactic keywords; for ECMA Script, the process is somewhat more involved.

A typical object definition in XML looks something like this: 


<interface name="foo">
  <descr><p>Description goes here...</p></descr>
  <method name="bar">
    <descr><p>Description goes here...</p></descr>
    <parameters>
      <param name="baz" type="DOMString" attr="in">
        <descr><p>Description goes here...</p></descr>
      </param>
    </parameters>
    <returns type="void">
       <descr><p>Description goes here...</p></descr>
    </returns>
    <raises>
       <!-- Throws no exceptions -->  
    </raises>
  </method>
</interface>

As can easily be seen, this is quite verbose, but not unlike OMG IDL. In fact, when the specification was originally converted to use XML, the OMG IDL definitions were automatically converted into the corresponding XML source using common Unix text manipulation tools.